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Adults with severe mental illness need tailor made help to lose weight

BMJ 2013; 346 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f1925 (Published 26 March 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;346:f1925

Adults with severe mental illness have a particularly high prevalence of obesity and a high risk of cardiovascular disease and death as a result. They are usually excluded from trials testing lifestyle approaches to weight loss, so US researchers designed …

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