Psychiatric News (12/17) reports, “Suicide risk is about two times higher in patients with Parkinson’s disease than the general population, even after adjusting for physical and mental comorbidities,” investigators concluded after conducting a “a cohort study using Taiwan’s National Health Insurance data, identifying 35,891 patients who received a Parkinson’s disease diagnosis between 2005 and 2014, with follow-up through 2016.” Next, “each patient with Parkinson’s was matched with four control participants (those who had not been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease), for a total control cohort of 143,577.” The findings were published online Dec. 16 in JAMA Psychiatry.
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— “Parkinson’s Disease Associated With Increased Risk of Suicide, Study Finds, Psychiatric News, December 17, 2020