Assessment of the Risk of Psychiatric Disorders, Use of Psychiatric Hospitals, and Receipt of Psychiatric Medication Among Patients With Lyme Neuroborreliosis in Denmark.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The association of Lyme neuroborreliosis with the development of psychiatric disease is unknown and remains a subject of debate.

Objective

To investigate the risk of psychiatric disease, the percentage of psychiatric hospital inpatient and outpatient contacts, and the receipt of prescribed psychiatric medications among patients with Lyme neuroborreliosis compared with individuals in a matched comparison cohort.

Design, setting, and participants

This nationwide population-based matched cohort study included all residents of Denmark who received a positive result on an intrathecal antibody index test for Borrelia burgdorferi (patient cohort) between January 1, 1995, and December 31, 2015. Patients were matched by age and sex to a comparison cohort of individu

SUBMITTER: Tetens MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7542530 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature