Date: 2024/11/01 (Fri) 15:00 -17:00

Speaker: Dr. Pao-Huan Chen (Associate Professor, Taipei Medical University Hospital)

Topic: Links Between Serious Mental Disorder and Cardiovascular Disease

Abstract:

My research addresses the fact that cardiovascular comorbidity is often overlooked in people with serious mental disorder from the non-Western countries. These publications illustrate that people with serious mental disorder from the non-Western society actually have comparable prevalence of coronary heart disease and cardiac hypertrophy as those reported in the Western studies. In particular, heart failure is the major cardiovascular comorbidity that contributes to the high mortality rate in this vulnerable population. This body of work informs clinicians in both Western and Eastern society need to pay attention to cardiac health in people with serious mental disorder. Moreover, considering that most of the well-known cardiovascular risk factors are
lifestyle-related, the findings of no obvious difference in cardiovascular burden among patients with serious mental disorder across the countries where people have different lifestyle may imply that beyond the well-known conventional cardiovascular risk factors, patients with serious mental disorder may carry certain risk factors for cardiovascular disease associated with the inherent characteristics of serious mental disorder.