Individuals With a Mental Disorder at Increased Risk for Subsequent Diagnoses

About 30% of men and 40% of women diagnosed with depression before age 20 will be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder within five years, and 40% of men and 50% of women will be diagnosed within 15 years, reports astudy published today in JAMA Psychiatry. This strong association between depression and later anxiety was just one of many comorbidities identified in this study —one of the largest and most detailed examinations of comorbidity of mental disorders to date.“To our knowledge, this is the first study to provide a comprehensive set of age- and sex-specific estimates of absolute risks associated with comorbid mental disorders,” lead author Oleguer Plana-Ripoll, Ph.D., of Aarhus University and colleagues wrote. “Our findings provide new insights into the complex nature of comorbidity, and the comprehensive nature of the analysis will provide an important foundation for future research.”Plana-Ripoll and colleagues used health registry data from all individuals born in Denmark and residing in the country between 2000 and 2015; this encompassed 5.94 million individuals and about 84 million years of medical data. They grouped all ICD diagnoses within 10 categories of mental illness: behavioral disorders, developmental disorders, eating disorders, intellectual disability, mood disorders, neurotic disorders, organic disorders (for example, dementia), personality disorders, schizophrenia disorders, and substance use disorders. Next, they calculated the risks of an indiv...
Source: Psychiatr News - Category: Psychiatry Tags: absolute risk anxiety Danish registers depression diagnosis health registry psychiatric comorbidity risk factors Source Type: research