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Table 1 Odds ratios for suicide in patients with a personality disorder (PD) vs. no mental illness and vs. other mental illnesses

From: Suicide risk in primary care patients diagnosed with a personality disorder: a nested case control study

Exposure categories

Suicide cases

Living controls

  

n

%

n

%

Odds ratioa

(95 % CI)

No mental illness

887

37.2

33,636

71.7

1.00

(Ref.)

Other mental illness (not PD)

1387

58.2

13,027

27.8

4.47

(4.08–4.89)

Personality disorder (PD)

110

4.6

236

0.5

19.79

(15.55–25.18)

Total

2384

100

46,899

100

  

PD vs. other mental illness

-

-

-

-

4.43

(3.50–5.61)

  1. aOdds ratio estimated by conditional logistic regression, adjusted inherently for age and gender in the matched design