The Relationship of Mental and Behavioral Disorders to All-Cause Mortality in a 27-Year Follow-up of 4 Epidemiologic Catchment Area Samples

• Published in: American journal of epidemiology Vol. 178; no. 9; pp. 1366 - 1377
• Main Authors: Eaton, W. W., Roth, K. B., Bruce, M., Cottler, L., Wu, L., Nestadt, G., Ford, D., Bienvenu, O. J., Crum, R. M., Rebok, G., Anthony, J. C., Munoz, A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cary, NC Oxford University Press 01.11.2013; Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Age Factors; Aged; Alcohol use; Antisocial personality disorder; Antisocial Personality Disorder - epidemiology; Anxiety Disorders - epidemiology; Behavior disorders; Biological and medical sciences; Catchment areas; Continental Population Groups; Drug use; Epidemiology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; General aspects; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Medical sciences; Mental disorders; Mental Disorders - epidemiology; Mental Disorders - ethnology; Mental Disorders - mortality; Middle Aged; Miscellaneous; Mood disorders; Mood Disorders - epidemiology; Mortality; Prevalence; Proportional Hazards Models; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Sex Factors; Special; Substance-Related Disorders - epidemiology; United States - epidemiology; Young Adult; United States; Mood disorder; Drug addiction; generalized gamma distribution; Mortality; mood disorders; substance-related disorders; Anxiety disorder; Substance abuse; anxiety disorders; Epidemiology; Generalized; Personality disorder; Behavioral disorder; proportional hazards model; Cause; Distribution; Mental disorder; Models; personality disorders; Hazard; Public health; mortality; mental disorder

Subjects from the Epidemiologic Catchment Area Program, interviewed during 1979-1983, were linked to data in the National Death Index through 2007 to estimate the association of mental and behavioral disorders with death. There were more than 25 years of follow-up for 15,440 individuals, with 6,924...