Citation

Torjesen I. BMJ 2016; 354: i4416.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, BMJ Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1136/bmj.i4416

PMID

27516455

Abstract

Patients admitted to hospital because of infections have a 42% increased risk of death by suicide, a study published in JAMA Psychiatry has found.

Infection and inflammation have increasingly been linked with a potential critical role in psychiatric disorders and suicidal behaviour, so the researchers attempted to estimate the association between admission for infection and the risk of death by suicide. They used data from Danish longitudinal registers on 7.22 million people aged over 15 living in Denmark …

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