Severe depression and all-cause and cause-specific mortality in Scotland: 20 year national cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Understanding cause of death in people with depression could inform approaches to reducing premature mortality.

Aim

To describe all-cause and cause-specific mortality for people with severe depression in Scotland, by sex, relative to the general population.

Method

We performed a retrospective cohort study, using psychiatric hospital admission data linked to death data, to identify adults (≥18 years old) with severe depression and ascertain cause-specific deaths, during 2000-2019. We estimated relative all-cause and cause-specific mortality for people with severe depression using standardised mortality ratios (SMRs), stratified by sex using the whole Scottish population as the standard.

Results

Of 28 808 people with severe depression, 7903 (27.4%) die

SUBMITTER: Alotaibi R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10790224 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature