TY - JOUR PY - 2016// TI - Admission for infection is linked to increased suicide risk JO - BMJ A1 - Torjesen, Ingrid SP - i4416 EP - i4416 VL - 354 IS - N2 -
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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LA - en SN - 0959-535X UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmj.i4416 ID - ref1 ER -