Grant: CIHR-ICRH Travel Awards - ICRH / Vascular pool

This initiative aims to improve access to CV preventative screening in people with severe mental illness, a highly vulnerable population. Patients were referred from outpatient psychiatry clinics to a newly created Cardio-Psychiatry clinic for CV risk screening and treatment between November 2022 and July 2023. Patients were eligible if they had SMI and no known CV disease. Pre-existing and newly identified CV risk factors were recorded. If indicated, treatment was initiated for CV risk factors per evidence-based guidelines.