Table 4.
Mortality 1998–2000 in a community-based cohort with severe mental disorder, by hospital treatment history
| Psychiatric inpatient care (n = 7740) | No psychiatric inpatient care (n = 4363) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Men (n = 3725) | Women (n = 4015) | Men (n = 2084) | Women (n = 2279) | |||||
| Cause of Death | Obs | SMR (95% CI) | Obs | SMR (95% CI) | Obs | SMR (95% CI) | Obs | SMR (95% CI) |
| All natural causes | 170 | 3.4 (2.9 – 3.9) | 200 | 2.4 (2.1 – 2.8) | 85 | 2.2 (1.7 – 2.7) | 78 | 1.4 (1.1 – 1.8) |
| Neoplasms | 17 | 1.1 (0.6 – 1.7) | 40 | 1.6 (1.1 – 2.1) | 14 | 1.2 (0.7 – 2.0) | 14 | 0.9 (0.5 – 1.5) |
| Diseases of the circulatory system | 71 | 3.3 (2.6 – 4.2) | 91 | 2.6 (2.1 – 3.2) | 42 | 2.5 (1.8 – 3.3) | 42 | 1.7 (1.3 – 2.3) |
| Ischaemic heart diseases | 41 | 3.5 (2.5 – 4.8) | 39 | 2.8 (2.0 – 3.8) | 25 | 2.7 (1.8 – 4.0) | 17 | 1.8 (1.0 – 2.8) |
| Cerebrovascular diseases | 9 | 2.3 (1.0 – 4.3) | 19 | 2.1 (1.3 – 3.3) | 9 | 2.8 (1.3 – 5.3) | 14 | 2.3 (1.2 – 3.8) |
| Diseases of the respiratory system | 16 | 5.2 (2.9 – 8.4) | 20 | 3.3 (2.0 – 5.1) | 8 | 3.1 (1.3 – 6.1) | 10 | 2.5 (1.2 – 4.5) |
| Diseases of the digestive system | 12 | 4.8 (2.5 – 8.4) | 9 | 3.0 (1.4 – 5.7) | 8 | 4.5 (1.9 – 8.8) | 2 | 1.0 (0.1 – 3.7) |
| All external causes | 68 | 10.6 (8.2 – 13.4) | 40 | 9.6 (6.9 – 13.1) | 11 | 2.8 (1.4 – 5.0) | 11 | 4.2 (2.1 – 7.4) |
| Accidents | 17 | 6.0 (3.5 – 9.6) | 6 | 2.9 (1.1 – 6.3) | 5 | 2.7 (0.9 – 6.4) | 7 | 5.0 (2.0 – 10.3) |
| Suicide and undetermined (X60-84, Y10-34) | 50 | 16.1 (11.9 – 21.2) | 32 | 17.4 (11.9 – 24.6) | 6 | 3.3 (1.2 – 7.3) | 4 | 3.7 (1.0 – 9.5) |
| Suicide (X60-84) | 37 | 15.5 (10.9 – 21.3) | 26 | 17.7 (11.6 – 26.0) | 3 | 2.2 (0.4 – 6.3) | 3 | 3.5 (0.7 – 10.2) |
| Undetermined intent (Y10-34) | 13 | 18.1 (9.6 – 30.9) | 6 | 16.2 (6.0 – 35.3) | 3 | 7.5 (1.5 – 21.9) | 1 | 4.6 (0.1 – 25.5) |
| All Causes | 238 | 4.2 (3.7 – 4.7) | 240 | 2.7 (2.4 – 3.1) | 96 | 2.2 (1.8 – 2.7) | 89 | 1.5 (1.2 – 1.9) |