Association Between Neurological Disorders and Death by Suicide in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Neurological disorders have been linked to suicide, but the risk across a broad spectrum of neurological disorders remains to be assessed.

Objectives

To examine whether people with neurological disorders die by suicide more often than other people and to assess for temporal associations.

Design, setting, and participants

Nationwide, retrospective cohort study on all persons 15 years or older living in Denmark, from 1980 through 2016 (N = 7 300 395).

Exposures

Medical contact for head injury, stroke, epilepsy, polyneuropathy, diseases of myoneural junction, Parkinson disease, multiple sclerosis, central nervous system infections, meningitis, encephalitis, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Huntington disease, dementia, intellectual disability, and other b

SUBMITTER: Erlangsen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7042859 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature