Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program News Today

A new study found individuals with OCD had an 82% increased risk of all-cause mortality as well as an increased risk of mortality due to natural causes and unnatural causes.

Objective To estimate the risk of all cause and cause specific mortality in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) compared with matched unaffected people from the general population and with their unaffected siblings. Design Population based matched cohort and sibling cohort study. Setting Register linkage in Sweden. Participants Population based cohort including 61 378 people with OCD and 613 780 unaffected people matched (1:10) on sex, birth year, and county of residence; sibling...