Citation

Hu WS, Lin CL. Heart Lung Circ. 2020; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Management Office for Health Data, China Medical University Hospital, Taichung 40447, Taiwan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.hlc.2020.02.005

PMID

32291156

Abstract

BACKGROUND: To investigate whether pulmonary hypertension and suicide attempts are correlated.

METHODS: This study enrolled 7,727 pulmonary hypertension patients and 7,727 comparison subjects. The multivariate Cox proportional hazard model was used to calculate the adjusted hazard ratios (HRs) after adjustment for variables that were associated with suicide attempts in univariate model.

RESULTS: After adjustment for variables which were associated with suicide attempt, pulmonary hypertension patients had significantly higher adjusted HRs (95% confidence interval[CI]) of 2.08 (1.85, 2.34) for a suicide attempt.

CONCLUSIONS: We found that pulmonary hypertension was associated with a higher risk of suicide attempt.

Copyright © 2020 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Language: en

Keywords

Pulmonary hypertension; Risk; Suicide attempt