Psychiatric morbidity and work participation in patients with congenital ventricular septal defects: a case-controlled study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The burden of psychiatric morbidity, level of education, and work participation are currently unknown in patients with congenital ventricular septal defects (VSD).

Methods and results

In a Danish population-based cohort study using nationwide medical registries, the burden of psychiatric disorders, use of psychotropic agents, level of education, and work participation were examined in patients with isolated congenital VSD and controls from the general population matched by age and sex. Subjects with known chromosomal abnormalities were excluded. To compute estimates, Cox proportional regression model, Fine and Gray's competing risk regression, and Kaplan-Meier failure function were used. We included 8006 patients and 79 568 controls born before 2018. Median follow

SUBMITTER: Eckerstrom F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11398907 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature