Researchers from the University of Texas found that people who suffer from schizophrenia are four times as likely to die of Covid than the general population.

those who have anxiety or mood disorders are almost three times as likely to die from the virus as people without these conditions. .

People who suffer from psychiatric disorders are at an increased risk of dying from COVID-19, a new study finds.

People with schizophrenia are 3.74 times as likely to die than the average person, and those with mood disorders or anxiety are more than twice as likely (file photo).

People who had schizophrenia and mood disorders were found to be at a decreased risk of infection from Covid, being 10 percent less likely to contract the virus.

After that adjustment, they found that people who suffer from schizophrenia were 3.74 times more likely to die from Covid than the general population.

There was an increased risk of death for all schizophrenic people last year, though, with 3.4 percent of study participants who tested negative dying of another cause last year - compared to only 1.4 percent of the general population group.