ArticleJournal of cardiac failure2018
Is Heart Failure Associated With Risk of Suicide?
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- Assessing suicide risk in patients with heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Suicide risks associated with cardiovascular disease in persons with alcohol use disorder.Annals of epidemiology · 2026Article
- Time to Death by Suicide in an Epidemiological Sample of Veterans With an Inpatient Hospitalization for Heart Failure.The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry · 2025Article
- Caffeine intake is linked to depressive symptoms in patients with heart failure: An analysis based on NHANES, 2005 to 2018.Medicine · 2025Observational
- Cardiovascular Disease, Genetic Susceptibility, and Risk of Psychiatric Disorders and Suicide Attempt: A Community-Based Matched Cohort Study Based on the UK Biobank.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2024Article
- Suicidal behaviour among patients with congestive cardiac failure in a Nigerian teaching hospital.The South African journal of psychiatry : SAJP : the journal of the Society of Psychiatrists of South Africa · 2024Article
- Longitude-based time zone partitions and rates of suicide.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Depression in Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction, an Undervalued Comorbidity: An Up-To-Date Review.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Review
- Associations between β-blockers and psychiatric and behavioural outcomes: A population-based cohort study of 1.4 million individuals in Sweden.PLoS medicine · 2023Article
- Risks of Depression and Suicide After Diagnosis With Heart Failure: A National Cohort Study.JACC. Heart failure · 2022Article
- Association between new-onset liver cirrhosis and suicide risk in South Korea: A nationwide cohort study.Clinical and molecular hepatology · 2021Article
- Heart Failure and Suicide: The Role of Depression.Journal of cardiac failure · 2018Article
- Bi-directional association between depression and HF: An electronic health records-based cohort study.Journal of comorbidityArticle
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Abstract
backgroundThe high prevalence of heart failure (HF) in developed countries imposes a substantial burden on health care resources. Depression is widely recognized as a risk factor associated with HF. This study examined the relationship between suicide and HF after controlling for depression and other comorbidities. METHODS AND
resultsThe population comprised 52,749 adult patients who died from suicide from 2000 to 2012 and 210,996 living control subjects matched by age, sex, and residence area. Data were obtained from the Health and Welfare Data Science Center, Taiwan. Multivariable models were constructed to evaluate the relationship between HF and suicide. In the case and control groups 1624 (3.08%) and 4053 (1.92%) patients had HF, respectively, indicating that HF was associated with an increased risk of suicide (odds ratio [OR] 1.68, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.59-1.79). The risk of suicide was highest during the initial 6 months after HF (adjusted OR 7.04, 95% CI 5.37-9.22) and subsequently declined gradually. Among psychiatric disorders, mood disorders (adjusted OR 7.42, 95% CI 7.06-7.79) yielded the highest odds of suicide.
conclusionsThe risk of suicide is higher for patients with HF than for healthy individuals without HF. This risk is particularly high during the first 6 months after HF diagnosis. This study provides strong evidence that depression is a negative prognostic factor for patients with HF and increases the risk of suicide. The results suggest that early screening and treatment for depression and suicide risk should be conducted for patients with HF.
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