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ArticleMolecular psychiatry2025

Risk of suicide and all-cause death in patients with mental disorders: a nationwide cohort study.

Hyewon Kim, Jin Hyung Jung, Kyungdo Han, Hong Jin Jeon

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Article in Molecular psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Suicide in neurodegenerative diseases: a systematic review.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026
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  13. Suicide Behavior as a Distinct Psychobiology in Major Depression.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026
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  17. Addressing the unmet needs of bipolar disorder in Australia and beyond.The Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Hyewon KimDepartment of Psychiatry, Hallym University Sacred Heart Hospital, Anyang, South Korea.
Jin Hyung JungSamsung Biomedical Research Institute, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Suwon, South Korea.
Kyungdo Han *Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Soongsil University, Seoul, South Korea. hkd917@naver.com.ORCID 0000-0002-6096-1263
Hong Jin Jeon *Department of Psychiatry, Depression Center, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea. jeonhj@skku.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-6126-542X

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mental disorders are associated with an increased risk of premature death, including suicide. This study aimed to examine the risk of suicide and all-cause death in patients with mental disorders after considering demographic, clinical, and lifestyle factors. Data from the National Health Insurance Sharing Service database and linked data from Statistics Korea were used. In total, 3,951,398 people aged ≥20 years were eligible for this study. Among the participants, 14 types of mental disorders were identified, and the subsequent incidences of suicide and all-cause death were monitored. The mean age of those with mental disorders and those without mental disorders was 56.5 (SD, 13.6) years and 46.6 (SD, 13.6) years, respectively. During an average follow-up period of 11.1 years (SD, 1.5), 249,830 participants died, of whom 12,290 died by suicide. Overall, the risk of suicide and all-cause death was higher in people with mental disorders than in controls. The risk of suicide was the highest among those with personality disorders, followed by those with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia spectrum disorder. The risk of all-cause death was the highest among those with intellectual disability, followed by those with schizophrenia spectrum disorder and alcohol use disorder. In conclusion, the risk of suicide and all-cause death increased among those with mental disorders, but there was substantial variation between the types of mental disorders for both suicide and all-cause death.

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Mental DisordersSuicideAdultAgedCause of DeathCohort StudiesFemaleHumansIncidenceMaleMiddle AgedRepublic of KoreaRisk FactorsSchizophreniaYoung Adult

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PMCPMC12185347

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