Medscape (2/8, Yasgur, Subscription Publication) reported that a study suggests that people “with borderline personality disorder (BPD) are at high risk for premature death from suicide as well as other causes.” Researchers followed nearly “300 patients with BPD and 72 comparison patients who had other personality disorders (PDs).” Over the 24-year “follow-up period, almost 6% of BPD patients died by suicide, vs only 1.4% of comparison patients; 14% of BPD patients died by causes other than suicide, compared to only 5.5% of comparison participants.” The findings were published online in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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