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Table 4 Odds ratios for suicide specific to patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD)

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.)

Mental illness (not PD or BPD)

1387

58.2

10,027

27.8

4.47

(4.08–4.89)

Other PD (not BPD)

94

3.9

217

0.5

18.30

(14.17–23.64)

Borderline PD

16

0.7

19

0.04

37.28

(19.00–73.13)

Total b

2384

100

46,899

100

  

BPD vs. other PD

-

-

-

-

2.04

(1.00–4.15)

  1. aOdds ratio estimated by conditional logistic regression, adjusted inherently for age and gender in the matched design
  2. bTo avoid repetition with Table 1 we have not reported the ‘Mental illness: not PD’ in this table