ArticleJournal of neurology2018
Neurological diseases and risk of suicide attempt: a case-control study.
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- Meta-analysis of risk factors associated with suicidal ideation after stroke.Annals of general psychiatry · 2022Article
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- The wish to die and hastening death in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: A scoping review.BMJ supportive & palliative care · 2021Article
- Mortality of neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorders in a Chinese population.Annals of clinical and translational neurology · 2021Observational
- Depression in myasthenia gravis: a heterogeneous and intriguing entity.Journal of neurology · 2020Article
- Suicidality Assessment of the Elderly With Physical Illness in the Emergency Department.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- When Sick Brain and Hopelessness Meet: Some Aspects of Suicidality in the Neurological Patient.CNS & neurological disorders drug targets · 2020Article
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Abstract
introductionNeurological diseases have a profound impact on quality of life. We investigated the risk of suicide attempt in ten neurological diseases.
methodsCase-control study. Cases were identified from the Danish Poison Information Centre database in the period 2006-2013. The prevalence of ten neurological diagnoses was compared with the prevalence in a randomly sampled age- and gender-matched control group.
resultsWe identified 8974 cases of suicidal attempt and 89,740 controls. We found an association between suicide attempt in nine of ten neurological diseases and disease groups, including stroke [odds ratio (OR) 3.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) (2.8-3.6)], Huntington's disease [OR 8.8, 95% CI (3.2-24.1)], amyotrophic lateral sclerosis [OR 5.0, 95% CI (1.7-14.6)], Parkinson's disease [OR 2.9, 95% CI (1.8-4.6)], Alzheimer's disease and other degenerative diseases [OR 4.8, 95% CI (3.1-7.5)], multiple sclerosis [OR 1.5, 95% CI (1.1-2.1)], epilepsy [OR 4.5, 95% CI (4.1-5.0)], hereditary and idiopathic neuropathy [OR 2.2, 95% CI (1.1-4.3)] and myasthenia gravis [OR 4.3, 95% CI (2.0-9.4)].
conclusionNine out of ten chronic neurological diseases were associated with an increased risk of suicide attempt. These data must be considered for clinicians treating this vulnerable group of patients.
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