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Table 1 Psychiatric comorbidity groups among older veterans on new AED monotherapy

From: Suicide-related behaviors in older patients with new anti-epileptic drug use: data from the VA hospital system

 

Suicide-related behaviors Cases

N = 64

Controls

N = 768

Psychiatric Conditions

N (%)

N (%)

Affective Disorders#^

44 (68.8)

265 (34.5)

Serious Mental Illness*#

19 (29.7)

119 (15.5)

Substance Abuse/Dependence^

13 (20.3)

86 (11.2)

Other Mental Illness^

25 (39.1)

151 (19.7)

  1. # Depression, Anxiety, PTSD
  2. *Schizophrenia, Other Psychoses, Bipolar Disorder
  3. ^ P < .001
  4. Psychiatric comorbidity categories are not mutually exclusive; some patients had more than one concomitant psychiatric diagnosis.
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BMC Medicine

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