Background
To investigate whether pulmonary hypertension and suicide attempts are correlated.
Methods
This study enrolled 7,727 pulmonary hypertension patients and 7,727 comparison subjects.
The multivariate Cox proportional hazard model was used to calculate the adjusted
hazard ratios (HRs) after adjustment for variables that were associated with suicide
attempts in univariate model.
Results
After adjustment for variables which were associated with suicide attempt, pulmonary
hypertension patients had significantly higher adjusted HRs (95% confidence interval[CI])
of 2.08 (1.85, 2.34) for a suicide attempt.
Conclusions
We found that pulmonary hypertension was associated with a higher risk of suicide
attempt.
Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: March 19, 2020
Accepted:
February 10,
2020
Received:
January 14,
2020
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© 2020 Australian and New Zealand Society of Cardiac and Thoracic Surgeons (ANZSCTS) and the Cardiac Society of Australia and New Zealand (CSANZ). Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
