This book is the only clinical guide exclusively on the treatment of medical comorbidities among patients with schizophrenia. Like its best-selling predecessor, this new, expanded edition compiles the latest research and clinical information regarding the crucial task of integrating medical and psychiatric care for the schizophrenic patient.

Despite growing awareness in the psychiatric community of the multifaceted medical needs of the severely mentally ill, statistics show that as much as 60% of all schizophrenia patients die prematurely from nonpsychiatric medical conditions -- in part because many physicians have not yet recognized how to properly treat common diseases and illnesses within this complex patient population. Medical Illness and Schizophrenia, Second Edition, is the only clinical guide to focus exclusively on the treatment of common medical comorbidities among patients with schizophrenia. Like its best-selling predecessor, the book compiles the latest research and clinical information on integrating medical and psychiatric care for the schizophrenia patient.

Twenty-eight physicians and psychiatrists, including editors Jonathan M. Meyer, M.D., and Henry A. Nasrallah, M.D., lend their expertise to this new, expanded edition. In fifteen chapters, this volume covers a wide range of common medical problems -- from metabolic and heart conditions, such as cardiovascular disease, hyperlipidemia, obesity and diabetes, to substance abuse and smoking. Each chapter concludes with "Key Clinical Points" that summarize important concepts and ensure reader retention. Additionally, the second edition includes new chapters that touch on some of the most complex clinical issues in the field of schizophrenia treatment today: • Recent trends in the integration of medical and mental healthcare • Behavioral treatments for weight loss in persons with schizophrenia• Treatment of sexual dysfunction among persons treated for schizophrenia• Health outcomes of schizophrenia treatment in children and adolescents• Health outcomes of schizophrenia treatment during pregnancy and breastfeeding

As the only clinical text of its kind, Medical Illness and Schizophrenia, Second Edition, is an invaluable resource for psychiatrists, nurses, healthcare professionals, and psychiatric and clinical residents. The goal of this text has always been to help clinicians recognize schizophrenia as both a brain disorder and a systemic disease with multiple manifestations that go beyond the obvious psychiatric symptoms -- and thus take a broader approach to treatment of schizophrenia. This new edition is a comprehensive, practical manual that serves as a reference for the medical management of seriously mentally ill patients across the age spectrum in both inpatient and outpatient settings.

ContributorsDisclosure of InterestsPrefacePart I: Public Health Issues for Schizophrenia PatientsChapter 1. Improving Physical Health Care for Patients With Serious Mental IllnessChapter 2. Excessive Mortality and Morbidity Associated With SchizophreniaChapter 3. Medical Outcomes From the CATIE Schizophrenia StudyPart II: Metabolic Disease, Heart Disease, and Related ConditionsChapter 4. Obesity and SchizophreniaChapter 5. Glucose Intolerance and Diabetes in Patients With SchizophreniaChapter 6. Effects of Antipsychotics on Serum LipidsChapter 7. The Spectrum of Cardiovascular Disease in Patients With SchizophreniaChapter 8. Behavioral Treatments for Weight Management of Patients With SchizophreniaChapter 9. Nicotine and Tobacco Use in Patients With SchizophreniaPart III: Special Topics and PopulationsChapter 10. HIV and Hepatitis C in Patients With SchizophreniaChapter 11. Substance Abuse and Schizophrenia Chapter 12. Sexual Dysfunction and SchizophreniaChapter 13. Managing the Health Outcomes of Schizophrenia Treatment in Children and AdolescentsChapter 14. Medical Health in Aging Persons With SchizophreniaChapter 15. Managing Health Outcomes of Women With Schizophrenia During Pregnancy and BreastfeedingIndex