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A Comparison With the General Population

Martin Buda, MD; Ming T. Tsuang, MD, PhD, DSc; Jerome A. Fleming, MS

Arch Gen Psychiatry. 1988;45(3):283-285.

Abstract
• Causes of death were determined in a cohort of DSM-III schizophrenics and in a group of "other" psychotics (with schizoaffective disorder, schizophreniform disorder, and atypical psychoses), and comparisons were made with the general population. Five causes of death were considered in this analysis: (1) infections, (2) neoplasms, (3) cardiovascular, (4) unnatural, and (5) other. Suicide occurred in excess among other psychotics compared with schizophrenics and with the general population.

Author Affiliations
From the Psychiatry Service, Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, Brockton, Mass (Drs Buda and Tsuang and Mr Fleming); Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts Mental Health Center (Drs Buda and Tsuang and Mr Fleming), and the Program in Psychiatric Epidemiology, Harvard Schools of Medicine and Public Health (Dr Tsuang), Boston.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Aug 28, 1987.

Reprint requests to Psychiatry Service (116A), Brockton/West Roxbury Veterans Administration Medical Center, 940 Belmont St, Brockton, MA 02401 (Dr Tsuang).

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