Cause-specific mortality and comorbid neurodevelopmental disorder in 167,515 patients with bipolar disorder : An entire population longitudinal study

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OBJECTIVE: Studies addressing premature mortality in bipolar disorder (BD) patients are limited by small sample sizes. Herein, we used almost 99 % of the population of Taiwan to address this issue, and its association with comorbid neurodevelopmental disorders and severe BD.

METHODS: Between 2003 and 2017, we enrolled 167,515 individuals with BD and controls matched 1:4 for sex and birth year from the National Health Insurance Database linked to the Database of National Death Registry in Taiwan. Time-dependent Cox regression models were used to examine cause-specific mortality (all-cause, natural, and unnatural causes [accidents or suicide]).

RESULTS: With adjustments of sex, age, income, urbanization, and physical conditions, suicide was associated with the highest risk of mortality (reported as hazard ratio with 95 % confidence interval: 9.15; 8.53-9.81) among BD patients, followed by unnatural (4.94; 4.72-5.17), accidental (2.15; 1.99-2.32), and natural causes (1.02; 1.00-1.05). Comorbid attention-deficiency hyperactivity disorder did not contribute to the increased risk of cause-specific mortality; however, comorbid autism spectrum disorder (ASD) increased such risks, particularly for natural (3.00; 1.85-4.88) and accidental causes (7.47; 1.80-31.1). Cause-specific mortality revealed a linear trend with the frequency of psychiatric hospitalization (all, p for trend <0.001), and BD patients hospitalized twice or more each year had 34.63-fold increased risk of suicide mortality (26.03-46.07).

CONCLUSIONS: BD patients with a higher frequency of psychiatric hospitalization have the highest risk of suicide mortality, and comorbid ASD was associated with an increased risk of natural and accidental causes of mortality.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:347

Enthalten in:

Journal of affective disorders - 347(2024) vom: 15. Feb., Seite 463-468

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Cho, Wei-Min [VerfasserIn]
Hsu, Tien-Wei [VerfasserIn]
Cheng, Chih-Ming [VerfasserIn]
Chang, Wen-Han [VerfasserIn]
Tsai, Shih-Jen [VerfasserIn]
Bai, Ya-Mei [VerfasserIn]
Su, Tung-Ping [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Tzeng-Ji [VerfasserIn]
Chen, Mu-Hong [VerfasserIn]
Liang, Chih-Sung [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Attention-deficiency hyperactivity disorder
Autism spectrum disorder
Bipolar disorder
Journal Article
Mortality
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Specific-cause mortality
Suicide

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Date Completed 08.01.2024

Date Revised 08.02.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.jad.2023.12.007

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM365563064