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

BMC Primary Care

Table 5 Odds ratios for suicide in patients with a personality disorder (PD) with and without a co-morbid alcohol misuse disorder

Exposure categories	Suicide cases		Living controls
Exposure categories	n	%	n	%	Odds ratio^a	(95 % CI)
No mental illness or alcohol misuse	884	37.0	33,613	71.7	1.00	(Ref.)
Mental illness (not PD or alcohol)	1234	51.8	12,494	26.6	4.15	(3.79–4.56)
Personality disorder (PD) only	80	3.4	208	0.4	16.52	(12.59–21.68)
Alcohol misuse only	156	6.5	552	1.2	12.18	(10.03–14.80)
PD + alcohol misuse	30	1.3	28	0.06	45.40	(26.84–76.78)
Total	2384	100	46,899	100

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

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