Increased mortality among patients admitted with major psychiatric disorders: a register-based study comparing mortality in unipolar depressive disorder, bipolar …

TM Laursen, T Munk-Olsen, M Nordentoft… - Journal of Clinical …, 2007 - psychiatrist.com
Increased Mortality Among Patients Admitted With Major Psychiatric Disorders: A Register-Based
Study Comparing Mortality in Unip Page 1 Laursen et al. 900 J Clin Psychiatry 68:6, June …

Epidemiology, neurobiology and pharmacological interventions related to suicide deaths and suicide attempts in bipolar disorder: Part I of a report of the International …

A Schaffer, ET Isometsä, L Tondo… - Australian & New …, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: Bipolar disorder is associated with elevated risk of suicide attempts and deaths.
Key aims of the International Society for Bipolar Disorders Task Force on Suicide included …

Increased mortality among people with anxiety disorders: total population study

SM Meier, M Mattheisen, O Mors… - The British Journal of …, 2016 - cambridge.org
BackgroundAnxiety disorders and depression are the most common mental disorders
worldwide and have a striking impact on global disease burden. Although depression has …

Depression as a risk factor for non-suicide mortality in the elderly

R Schulz, RA Drayer, BL Rollman - Biological psychiatry, 2002 - Elsevier
Depression can be a consequence of medical illness and disability, yet recent literature
suggests it may also influence morbidity and mortality through a variety of behavioral and …

Chronic somatic comorbidity and excess mortality due to natural causes in persons with schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder

TM Laursen, T Munk-Olsen, C Gasse - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Suicide and death by accidents in persons with schizophrenia and bipolar
disorder are common, but excess mortality from natural death accounts for even more years …

What happens to patients with treatment-resistant depression? A systematic review of medium to long term outcome studies

A Fekadu, SC Wooderson, K Markopoulo… - Journal of affective …, 2009 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is relatively common and accounts
for a large proportion of the overall burden caused by depression. We conducted a …

Excess mortality in severe mental illness: 10-year population-based cohort study in rural Ethiopia

A Fekadu, G Medhin, D Kebede, A Alem… - The British Journal of …, 2015 - cambridge.org
BackgroundEvidence on mortality in severe mental illness (SMI) comes primarily from
clinical samples in high-income countries. AimsTo describe mortality in people with SMI …

A double-blind, placebo-controlled study of quetiapine and paroxetine as monotherapy in adults with bipolar depression (EMBOLDEN II)

SL McElroy, RH Weisler, W Chang… - The Journal of clinical …, 2010 - psychiatrist.com
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of quetiapine
and paroxetine monotherapy for major depression in bipolar disorder. Method: 740 patients …

Long-term morbidity in bipolar-I, bipolar-II, and unipolar major depressive disorders

A Forte, RJ Baldessarini, L Tondo, GH Vázquez… - Journal of affective …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Long-term symptomatic status in persons with major depressive and bipolar
disorders treated clinically is not well established, although mood disorders are leading …

Causes of decreased life expectancy over the life span in bipolar disorder

LV Kessing, E Vradi, RS McIntyre… - Journal of affective …, 2015 - Elsevier
Background Accelerated aging has been proposed as a mechanism explaining the
increased prevalence of comorbid general medical illnesses in bipolar disorder. Aims To …