All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality after Long-Term Sickness Absence for Psychiatric Disorders: A Prospective Cohort Study.

OBJECTIVE:The aim was to examine if long-term psychiatric sickness absence was associated with all-cause and diagnosis-specific (cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer and suicide) mortality for the period 1990-2007. An additional aim was to examine these associations for psychiatric sickness absence...

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Main Authors: Anna Bryngelson, Marie Asberg, Ake Nygren, Irene Jensen, Ellenor Mittendorfer-Rutz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3694065?pdf=render