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. 2020 Feb 21;15:14. doi: 10.1186/s13722-020-0181-1

Table 3.

Risk of suicide by substance use disorder category, by gender

Substance use disorder category Odds ratioa Adjusted odds (adjusted for age, education level, poverty level, Charlson index, psychiatric diagnoses)
OR CIb p-value aOR CI p-value
Male only
 Alcohol only 11.7 9.6 14.3 0.001 4.6 3.7, 5.6 0.001
 Drug only 8.2 6.1, 11.2 0.001 4.0 2.9, 5.4 0.001
 Tobacco only 3.5 3.1, 4.1 0.001 1.8 1.6, 2.1 0.001
 Alcohol + drug 14.5 10.1, 20.7 0.001 6.3 4.4, 9.0 0.001
 Alcohol + tobacco 13.6 10.6, 17.5 0.001 5.5 4.2, 7.0 0.001
 Drug + tobacco 10.4 6.8, 16.1 0.001 3.5 2.3, 5.4 0.001
 Alcohol + drug + tobacco 19.5 13.9, 27.4 0.001 7.9 5.6, 11.1 0.001
Female only
 Alcohol only 22.4 14.8, 34.00 0.001 10.7 6.3, 18.1 0.001
 Drug only 13.9 8.5, 22.8 0.001 5.2 2.9, 9.1 0.001
 Tobacco only 3.8 3.0, 4.9 0.001 2.5 1.9, 3.3 0.001
 Alcohol + drug 34.3 17.3, 68.0 0.001 11.8 5.4, 25.8 0.001
 Alcohol + tobacco 23.0 13.8, 38.3 0.001 6.5 3.6. 11.8 0.001
 Drug + tobacco 32.9 17.6, 61.4 0.001 10.4 4.9, 22.0 0.001
 Alcohol + drug + tobacco 53.5 27.4, 104.3 0.001 16.7 7.9, 35.3 0.001

aAll conditional logistic regression models are conditional on site

bCI denotes 95% confidence interval