MedPage Today (5/26, Grant) reports, “Adults with schizophrenia, particularly young adults, have a significantly higher suicide rate compared with the U.S. general population,” investigators concluded after analyzing “five national retrospective longitudinal cohorts of patients with schizophrenia in the Medicare program from January 2007 to December 2016 who were split up by age groups – 18 to 34, 35 to 44, 45 to 54, 55 to 64, and 65 and older,” including “668,836 patients with schizophrenia (52.5% men), 2,997,308 years of follow-up, and 2,218 suicide deaths.” The study revealed that “the rate of suicide per 100,000 person-years among” adults with schizophrenia “was 74.0, which is 4.5 times higher than the rate for the general population,” with “suicide risk…highest among the youngest group of adults – ages 18 to 34 – with a suicide rate of 141.95.” The findings were published online May 26 in JAMA Psychiatry. Healio (5/26, Gramigna) also covers the study.
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