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ArticlePsychiatry research2015

Risk of suicide for individuals reporting asthma and atopy in young adulthood: findings from the Glasgow Alumni study.

Andrew A Crawford, Bruna Galobardes, Mona Jeffreys, George Davey Smith, David Gunnell

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Article in Psychiatry research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 4 pooled it
0.3field-weighted citation impact, top 46% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Completed suicide in patients with skin disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew A CrawfordSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK. Electronic address: Andrew.Crawford@bristol.ac.uk.
Bruna GalobardesSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK.
Mona JeffreysSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK.
George Davey SmithMRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK.
David GunnellSchool of Social and Community Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 2BN, UK.
University of Bristol · GB

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_12013/1Medical Research Council MR/K006525/1Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 089979Wellcome Trust 093848
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

There is emerging evidence that asthma and atopy may be associated with a higher risk of suicide. We investigated the association of asthma and atopy with mortality from suicide (n=32) in the Glasgow Alumni cohort, adjusting for the key confounders of socioeconomic position and smoking. We found no evidence of an association in our a priori atopy phenotypes with suicide, and there were insufficient suicides in the asthma phenotypes to draw any conclusions. In additional analyses, individuals reporting both eczema-urticaria and hay fever and those with family history of atopy were at higher risk of suicide. As these were secondary analyses and based on small numbers of events we cannot rule out chance findings. The lack of evidence in our main hypothesis may be due to the small number of suicides or reported associations between asthma and atopy may be confounded.

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AdolescentAsthmaEczemaFemaleHumansHypersensitivity, ImmediateMalePrevalenceRhinitis, Allergic, SeasonalRiskSmokingSuicideYoung AdultAsthmaAtopySuicide

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PMID25596956
PMCPMC4326175
OpenAlexW2051053685

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