@article{ref1,
title="The Iowa record-linkage study. II. Excess mortality among patients with organic mental disorders",
journal="Archives of general psychiatry",
year="1985",
author="Black, D. W. and Warrack, G. and Winokur, G.",
volume="42",
number="1",
pages="78-81",
abstract="Of 543 patients with organic mental disorders hospitalized at the University of Iowa Psychiatric Hospital, Iowa City, during a ten-year period, 87 died. This mortality was significant based on a control population. Patients of all ages were at risk for early death, especially those younger than 40 years. Risk was greatest during the first two years of follow-up; thereafter the observed death rate approached the expected rate. Patients were at special risk for death from &quot;natural&quot; causes, particularly cancer and heart disease among women, and influenza or pneumonia or &quot;other&quot; natural causes among men. During the first two years of follow-up, men were also at risk for death from accidents or suicide. Women with alcohol- and drug-related psychoses were at risk for death early in follow-up, but the diagnosis was not associated with risk from &quot;unnatural death&quot; in either sex.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0003-990X",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}