Mortality Among Persons With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Several mental disorders have consistently been found to be associated with decreased life expectancy, but little is known about whether this is also the case for obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Objective

To determine whether persons who receive a diagnosis of OCD are at increased risk of death.

Design, setting, and participants

Using data from Danish registers, we conducted a nationwide prospective cohort study with 30 million person-years of follow-up. The data were collected from Danish longitudinal registers. A total of 3 million people born between 1955 and 2006 were followed up from January 1, 2002, through December 31, 2011. During this period, 27,236 people died. The data were analyzed primarily in June 2015.

Main outcomes and measures

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SUBMITTER: Meier SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5082974 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature