Table 2.
Mortality 1998–2000 in a community-based cohort with severe mental disorder, by gender
| Men (n = 5809) | Women (n = 6294) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of Deatha | ICD-10 chapter | Obs | Exp | SMR (95% CI) | Excess deaths | Obs | Exp | SMR (95% CI) | Excess deaths |
| All natural causes | I-XVIII | 255 | 89.9 | 2.8 (2.5 – 3.2) | 165 | 278 | 138.7 | 2.0 (1.8 – 2.3) | 139 |
| Neoplasms | II | 31 | 27.6 | 1.1 (0.8 – 1.6) | 3 | 54 | 41.2 | 1.3 (1.0 – 1.7) | 13 |
| Diseases of the circulatory system | IX | 113 | 38.3 | 3.0 (2.4 – 3.6) | 75 | 133 | 59.0 | 2.3 (1.9 – 2.7) | 74 |
| Ischaemic heart diseases | IX | 66 | 20.9 | 3.2 (2.5 – 4.0) | 45 | 56 | 23.9 | 2.3 (1.8 – 3.0) | 32 |
| Cerebrovascular diseases | IX | 18 | 7.1 | 2.5 (1.5 – 4.0) | 11 | 33 | 15.1 | 2.2 (1.5 – 3.1) | 18 |
| Diseases of the respiratory system | X | 24 | 5.7 | 4.2 (2.7 – 6.3) | 18 | 30 | 10.1 | 3.0 (2.0 – 4.3) | 20 |
| Diseases of the digestive system | XI | 20 | 4.3 | 4.7 (2.9 – 7.2) | 16 | 11 | 5.0 | 2.2 (1.1 – 4.0) | 6 |
| All external causes | XX | 79 | 10.3 | 7.6 (6.0 – 9.5) | 69 | 51 | 6.8 | 7.5 (5.6 – 9.9) | 44 |
| Accidents | XX | 22 | 4.7 | 4.7 (3.0 – 7.1) | 17 | 13 | 3.5 | 3.8 (2.0 – 6.4) | 10 |
| Suicide and undetermined (X60-84, Y10-34) | XX | 56 | 4.9 | 11.4 (8.6 – 14.8) | 51 | 36 | 2.9 | 12.4 (8.7 – 17.1) | 33 |
| Suicide (X60-84) | XX | 40 | 3.8 | 10.6 (7.6 – 14.4) | 36 | 29 | 2.3 | 12.5 (8.4 – 17.9) | 27 |
| Undetermined intent (Y10-34) | XX | 16 | 1.1 | 14.3 (8.2 – 23.2) | 15 | 7 | 0.6 | 11.9 (4.8 – 24.5) | 6 |
| All Causes | 334 | 100.2 | 3.3 (3.0 – 3.7) | 234 | 329 | 145.5 | 2.3 (2.0 – 2.5) | 183 | |
a. Only causes of death with 15 or more observed deaths in either gender are presented here, to emphasise the more statistically stable results.