Association of Urbanicity with Schizophrenia and Related Mortality in China: Association de l'urbanicite avec la schizophrenie et la mortalite qui y est reliee en Chine.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Although higher prevalence of schizophrenia in Chinese urban areas was observed, studies focused on the association between schizophrenia and urbanicity were less in China. Using a national representative population-based data set, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between urbanicity and schizophrenia and its related mortality among adults aged 18 years old and above in China.

Methods

Data were obtained from the Second China National Sample Survey on Disability in 2006 and follow-up studies from 2007 to 2010 each year. We restricted our analysis to 1,909,205 participants aged 18 years or older and the 2,071 schizophrenia patients with information of survival and all-caused mortality of the follow-up surveys from 2007 to 2010.Schizophrenia was ascerta

SUBMITTER: Luo Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8172350 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature