Total and cause-specific mortality in patients with personality disorders: the association between comorbid severe mental illness and substance use disorders.
Anne HøyeBjarne K JacobsenJørgen G BramnessRagnar NesvågTed Reichborn-KjennerudIna HeibergPublished in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2021)
The SMR was high in both in- and outpatients with PD, and particularly high in patients with comorbid PD & SUD. Young female patients with PD & SUD were at highest risk. The higher mortality in patients with PD cannot, however, fully be accounted for by comorbidity.