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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Jul 7.
Published before final editing as: Br J Psychiatry. 2025 Jun 25:1–8. doi: 10.1192/bjp.2025.128

Table 2. Intention-to-treat analysis of psychiatric and suicidal behaviour outcomes in individual with an autoimmune disorder diagnosis initiating a glucocorticoid versus those who do not (indication cohort), stratified by past psychiatric diagnosis.

Outcome Time Overall cohort (N = 287,366) Past mental health cohort (N= 39,742)
Cumulative risk (%) Hazard Ratio Cumulative Risk (%) Hazard Ratio
Initiators Controls Initiators Controls
Anxiety 14 days 0.10 (0.07,0.13) 0.06 (0.06,0.07) 1.70 (1.27,2.27) 0.59 (0.40,0.79) 0.31 (0.28,0.35) 1.90 (1.35,2.66)
120 days 0.57 (0.48,0.66) 0.40 (0.38,0.42) 1.55 (1.25,1.93) 3.12 (2.49,3.75) 1.96 (1.81,2.11) 1.73 (1.33,2.24)
365 days 1.15 (1.01,1.28) 0.99 (0.95,1.02) 1.34 (1.16,1.55) 5.48 (4.60,6.37) 4.51 (4.29,4.73) 1.47 (1.22,1.77)
Bipolar
disorder
14 days 0.02 (0.01,0.03) 0.01 (0.01,0.02) 1.22 (0.62,2.40) 0.11 (0.03,0.19) 0.10 (0.08,0.12) 1.11 (0.53,2.31)
120 days 0.10 (0.06,0.14) 0.09 (0.08,0.10) 1.16 (0.67,2.00) 0.60 (0.31,0.90) 0.60 (0.52,0.68) 1.05 (0.58,1.89)
365 days 0.20 (0.14,0.26) 0.18 (0.17,0.20) 1.10 (0.75,1.62) 1.28 (0.86,1.70) 1.25 (1.13,1.38) 1.00 (0.66,1.51)
Depression 14 days 0.03 (0.02,0.05) 0.04 (0.03,0.04) 0.92 (0.57,1.46) 0.18 (0.08,0.27) 0.20 (0.18,0.23) 0.86 (0.48,1.56)
120 days 0.24 (0.18,0.31) 0.24 (0.22,0.26) 0.97 (0.68,1.39) 1.22 (0.84,1.60) 1.28 (1.17,1.40) 0.91 (0.58,1.41)
365 days 0.74 (0.63,0.85) 0.61 (0.58,0.64) 1.08 (0.88,1.34) 3.28 (2.63,3.92) 2.96 (2.79,3.14) 1.00 (0.76,1.31)
Schizophrenia
spectrum
disorders
14 days 0.02 (0.00,0.03) 0.02 (0.01,0.02) 1.10 (0.52,2.31) 0.11 (0.03,0.20) 0.11 (0.09,0.13) 1.03 (0.44,2.44)
120 days 0.10 (0.06,0.15) 0.09 (0.08,0.10) 1.14 (0.66,1.96) 0.66 (0.34,0.98) 0.60 (0.52,0.67) 1.08 (0.56,2.05)
365 days 0.18 (0.13,0.24) 0.19 (0.17,0.20) 1.11 (0.77,1.60) 1.21 (0.79,1.62) 1.20 (1.09,1.31) 1.08 (0.70,1.67)
Suicidal
behaviour
14 days 0.01 (0.00,0.02) 0.02 (0.01,0.02) 0.80 (0.39,1.64) 0.09 (0.02,0.15) 0.09 (0.07,0.10) 1.02 (0.48,2.16)
120 days 0.10 (0.06,0.13) 0.12 (0.11,0.13) 0.79 (0.46,1.38) 0.53 (0.29,0.78) 0.60 (0.53,0.68) 0.94 (0.52,1.71)
365 days 0.32 (0.25,0.40) 0.33 (0.31,0.36) 0.84 (0.61,1.17) 1.42 (0.99,1.85) 1.55 (1.43,1.68) 0.88 (0.59,1.32)