Alcohol Use Disorder and Risk of Suicide in a Swedish Population-Based Cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The authors examined the association between alcohol use disorder (AUD) and risk of suicide, before and after accounting for psychiatric comorbidity, and assessed the extent to which the observed association is due to a potentially causal mechanism or genetic and familial environmental confounding factors that increase risk for both.

Methods

Longitudinal population-wide Swedish medical, criminal, and pharmacy registries were used to evaluate the risk of death by suicide as a function of AUD history. Analyses employed prospective cohort and co-relative designs, including data on 2,229,880 native Swedes born between 1950 and 1970 and observed from age 15 until 2012.

Results

The lifetime rate of suicide during the observation period was 3.54% for women and 3.94

SUBMITTER: Edwards AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8887810 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature