Phenome-wide diagnostic comparison among suicide deaths and living individuals with chronic pain diagnoses.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Chronic pain, regardless of its type, is a significant risk factor for suicide. However, not all individuals with chronic pain also experience suicidal thoughts and behaviors. Better characterization of clinical risk profiles and comorbidities across the medical spectrum among people with chronic pain who die by suicide is urgently needed to aid treatment and prevention strategies.

Methods

This case-control study leverages population-based data from the Utah Suicide Mortality Risk Study. Specifically, we identify clinical phenotypes from diagnostic data that differentiate between individuals that died by suicide with chronic pain diagnoses (N = 1,410) and living control individuals who also had chronic pain diagnoses (N = 4,664). Medical diagnostic codes were aggr

SUBMITTER: DiBlasi E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11610288 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature