Cardiovascular mortality in bipolar disorder: a population-based cohort study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT: To estimate the cardiovascular mortality among persons with bipolar disorder in Sweden compared to the general population. Population register-based cohort study with a 20-year follow-up. Sweden. The entire population of Sweden (n=10.6 million) of whom 17 101 persons were diagnosed with bipolar disorder between 1987 and 2006. Mortality rate ratios (MRR), excess mortality (excess deaths), cardiovascular disorder (CVD) and specifically cerebrovascular disease, coronary heart disease, acute myocardial infarction, sudden cardiac deaths and hospital admission rate ratio (ARR). Persons with bipolar disorder died of CVD approximately 10 years earlier than the general population. One third (38%) of all deaths in persons with bipolar disorder were caused by CVD and almost half (44%) by other somati

SUBMITTER: Westman J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3641504 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature