Increased Risk Of Suicide Among Veterans With Bipolar Disorder

Increased Risk Of Suicide Among Veterans With Bipolar Disorder.
Military veterans with psychiatric illnesses are at increased hazard for suicide, says a unheard of study. The greatest jeopardize is among males with bipolar disorder and females with substance mistreat disorders, according to the researchers at the US Department of Veterans Affairs and Healthcare System and the University of Michigan. Overall, bipolar discompose (the least common diagnosis at 9 percent) was more strongly associated with suicide than any other psychiatric condition.

The researchers examined the psychiatric records of more than three million veterans who received any prototype of woe at a VA facility in 1999 and were still alive at the beginning of 2000. The patients were tracked for the next seven years.

During that time, 7684 of the veterans committed suicide. Slightly half of them had at least one psychiatric diagnosis. All of the psychiatric conditions included in the meditate on - depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, essence berating disorders, post-traumatic stress syndrome (PTSD) and other desire disorders - were associated with increased risk of suicide.