Suicide and all-cause mortality in Swedish deployed military veterans: a population-based matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate suicide and mortality risk in deployed military veterans versus non-deployed comparators who had gone through military conscription testing.

Design

Population-based matched cohort study.

Setting

Sweden.

Participants

Participants were identified from the Military Service Conscription Register and deployment status from the Swedish Military Information Personnel Register. Of 1.9 million conscripts, 21 721 had deployed at some time between 1990 and 2013 (deployed military veterans). Non-deployed comparators were matched to deployed military veterans in two ways: (1) by cognitive ability, psychological assessment, mental health, body mass index, sex, birth-year and conscription-year (carefully matched), with further adjustment for exercise

SUBMITTER: Pethrus CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5588943 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature