Personality disorders and cause-specific mortality: a nationwide study of 2 million adolescents.

CONCLUSIONS: Personality disorder in late adolescence is associated with increased risk of cardiovascular, external- and all-cause mortality. Increased cardiovascular mortality is evident before the age of 40 years and may point to the importance of lifestyle education already in youth.
PMID: 33050953 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Psychological Medicine - October 14, 2020 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tiosano S, Laur L, Tirosh A, Furer A, Afek A, Fink N, Derazne E, Tzur D, Fruchter E, Ben-Yehuda A, Bader T, Amital H, Szklo M, Weiser M, Twig G Tags: Psychol Med Source Type: research