Excess mortality by natural causes of Italian schizophrenic patients
| Autor: | Valeria Trapani, Alain D. Lesage, Michele Tansella |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty Psichiatria Population Social Environment Risk Factors Cause of Death Risk of mortality medicine Humans Pharmacology (medical) Life Tables Risk factor Psychiatry education Biological Psychiatry Aged Excess mortality education.field_of_study PSYA business.industry General Neuroscience Incidence General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Standardized mortality ratio Cross-Sectional Studies Italy Life table Schizophrenia Cohort Female Schizophrenic Psychology business Demography |
| Popis: | The risk of mortality over a 5- to 8-year period for a total 1-year prevalence cohort of schizophrenic patients extracted by means of the South-Verona Psychiatric Case Register (Italy) was assessed using three methods: (1) case control with both non-psychotic patients and the general population matched for sex and age; (2) indirect standardization using mortality tables; (3) a recently described method using survival tables. All methods yielded an excess mortality associated with schizophrenia, close to the two-fold increase described in other studies, while the survival tables method produced a higher standardized mortality ratio (SMR). The increased SMR did not appear solely attributable to suicide. Most deaths were attributable to natural causes. This is a departure from other recently reported mortality studies. The possible reasons are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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