TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Suicide and cardiovascular death after a cancer diagnosis
JO  - New England journal of medicine
A1  - Fang, Fang
A1  - Fall, Katja
A1  - Mittleman, Murray A.
A1  - Sparén, Par
A1  - Ye, Weimin
A1  - Adami, Hans-Olov
A1  - Valdimarsdóttir, Unnur
SP  - 1310
EP  - 1318
VL  - 366
IS  - 14
N2  - BACKGROUND: Receiving a diagnosis of cancer is a traumatic experience that may trigger immediate adverse health consequences beyond the effects of the disease or treatment. METHODS: Using Poisson and negative binomial regression models, we conducted a historical cohort study involving 6,073,240 Swedes to examine the associations between a cancer diagnosis and the immediate risk of suicide or death from cardiovascular causes from 1991 through 2006. To adjust for unmeasured confounders, we also performed a nested, self-matched case-crossover analysis among all patients with cancer who died from suicide or cardiovascular diseases in the cohort. RESULTS: As compared with cancer-free persons, the relative risk of suicide among patients receiving a cancer diagnosis was 12.6 (95% confidence interval [CI], 8.6 to 17.8) during the first week (29 patients; incidence rate, 2.50 per 1000 person-years) and 3.1 (95% CI, 2.7 to 3.5) during the first year (260 patients; incidence rate, 0.60 per 1000 person-years). The relative risk of cardiovascular death after diagnosis was 5.6 (95% CI, 5.2 to 5.9) during the first week (1318 patients; incidence rate, 116.80 per 1000 person-years) and 3.3 (95% CI, 3.1 to 3.4) during the first 4 weeks (2641 patients; incidence rate, 65.81 per 1000 person-years). The risk elevations decreased rapidly during the first year after diagnosis. Increased risk was particularly prominent for cancers with a poor prognosis. The case-crossover analysis largely confirmed results from the main analysis. CONCLUSIONS: In this large cohort study, patients who had recently received a cancer diagnosis had increased risks of both suicide and death from cardiovascular causes, as compared with cancer-free persons. (Funded by the Swedish Council for Working Life and Social Research and others.).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0028-4793
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1056/NEJMoa1110307
ID  - ref1
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