Antipsychotic treatment and mortality in schizophrenia

M Torniainen, E Mittendorfer-Rutz… - Schizophrenia …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Background: It is generally believed that long-term use of antipsychotics increases mortality
and, especially, the risk of cardiovascular death. However, there are no solid data to …

Childhood adversity and risk of suicide: cohort study of 548 721 adolescents and young adults in Sweden

C Björkenstam, K Kosidou, E Björkenstam - bmj, 2017 - bmj.com
Objective To examine the relation between childhood adversity, the role of school
performance, and childhood psychopathology and the risk of suicide. Design Cohort study of …

Unexplained differences between hospital and mortality data indicated mistakes in death certification: an investigation of 1,094 deaths in Sweden during 1995

LA Johansson, C Björkenstam, R Westerling - Journal of clinical …, 2009 - Elsevier
OBJECTIVE: Mortality statistics are important for epidemiological research. We examine if
discrepancies between death certificate (DC) and hospital discharge condition (HDC) …

Are cancer patients at higher suicide risk than the general population? A nationwide register study in Sweden from 1965 to 1999

C Björkenstam, A Edberg, S Ayoubi… - … Journal of Public …, 2005 - journals.sagepub.com
Objectives: The aims were to test whether suicide is more prevalent among cancer patients
than among the general population, whether the association changes over time, and …

Sexual orientation and all-cause mortality among US adults aged 18 to 59 years, 2001–2011

SD Cochran, C Björkenstam… - American journal of …, 2016 - ajph.aphapublications.org
To determine whether sexual minorities have an earlier mortality than do heterosexuals, we
investigated associations between sexual orientation assessed in the 2001 to 2010 National …

School grades, parental education and suicide—a national register-based cohort study

C Björkenstam, GR Weitoft, A Hjern… - J Epidemiol …, 2011 - jech.bmj.com
Background To investigate whether school performance is a risk factor for suicide death later
in life and, if so, to what extent this is explained by intergenerational effects of parental …

[HTML][HTML] Suicide or undetermined intent? A register-based study of signs of misclassification

C Björkenstam, LA Johansson, P Nordström… - Population health …, 2014 - Springer
Background Several studies have concluded that some deaths classified as undetermined
intent are in fact suicides, and it is common in suicide research in Europe to include these …

Suicide in first episode psychosis: a nationwide cohort study

C Björkenstam, E Björkenstam, A Hjern, R Bodén… - Schizophrenia …, 2014 - Elsevier
Background Relatively little is known about suicide in diagnostic subtypes of first episode
psychosis (FEP). Our aim was to assess suicide rates and potential risk factors for suicide in …

Sexual orientation differences in functional limitations, disability, and mental health services use: Results from the 2013–2014 National Health Interview Survey.

SD Cochran, C Björkenstam… - Journal of consulting and …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
Objectives: The authors investigated sexual orientation differences in risk for mental health
morbidity, functional limitations/disability, and mental health services use among adults …

Anxiety and depression among sexual minority women and men in Sweden: Is the risk equally spread within the sexual minority population?

C Björkenstam, E Björkenstam… - The journal of sexual …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Introduction Sexual minority individuals have a higher risk of anxiety and depression
compared with heterosexuals. However, whether the higher risk is spread equally across the …