Excess Mortality, Causes of Death and Life Expectancy in 270,770 Patients with Recent Onset of Mental Disorders in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

Merete Nordentoft; Kristian Wahlbeck; Jonas Hällgren; Jeanette Westman; Urban Ösby; Hassan Alinaghizadeh; Mika Gissler; Thomas Munk Laursen

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0055176

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Excess Mortality, Causes of Death and Life Expectancy in 270,770 Patients with Recent Onset of Mental Disorders in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

Merete Nordentoft ,

* E-mail: mn@dadlnet.dk

Affiliations Psychiatric Centre Copenhagen, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health Sciences, Copenhagen, Denmark, Nordic Research Academy in Mental Health, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden
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Kristian Wahlbeck,

Affiliations Nordic Research Academy in Mental Health, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden, THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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Jonas Hällgren,

Affiliation Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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Jeanette Westman,

Affiliations Nordic Research Academy in Mental Health, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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Urban Ösby,

Affiliations Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Neurogenetics Unit, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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Hassan Alinaghizadeh,

Affiliation Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Centre for Family Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Huddinge, Stockholm, Sweden
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Mika Gissler,

Affiliations Nordic Research Academy in Mental Health, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden, THL National Institute for Health and Welfare, Helsinki, Finland
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Thomas Munk Laursen

Affiliations Nordic Research Academy in Mental Health, Nordic School of Public Health, Gothenburg, Sweden, National Centre for Register-Based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
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Excess Mortality, Causes of Death and Life Expectancy in 270,770 Patients with Recent Onset of Mental Disorders in Denmark, Finland and Sweden

Merete Nordentoft,
Kristian Wahlbeck,
Jonas Hällgren,
Jeanette Westman,
Urban Ösby,
Hassan Alinaghizadeh,
Mika Gissler,
Thomas Munk Laursen

Published: January 25, 2013
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055176

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