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Temporal order of cancers and mental disorders in an adult population
- Source :
- BJPsych Open
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Royal College of Psychiatrists, 2018.
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Abstract
- BackgroundPopulation-based examination of comorbidity is an emerging field of study.AimsThe purpose of the present population level study is to expand our understanding of how cancer and mental illness are temporally associated.MethodA sample of 83 648 056 physician billing records for 664 838 (56% female) unique individuals over the age of 18 was stratified on ages 19–49 years and 50+ years, with temporal order of mental disorder and cancer forming the basis of comparison.ResultsMental disorders preceded cancers for both genders within each age strata. The full range of cancers and mental disorders preceding or following each pivot ICD class are described in terms of frequency of diagnosis and duration in days, with specific examples illustrated.ConclusionsThe temporal comorbidity between specific cancers and mental disorders may be useful in screening or clinical planning and may represent indicators of disease mechanism that warrant further screening or investigation.Declaration of interestNone.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
mental disorder
Population level
Population
Adult population
population
physician diagnosis
Disease
psychiatric disorder
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
medicine
cancer
Psychiatry
education
education.field_of_study
business.industry
Mechanism (biology)
adult
Cancer
medicine.disease
Mental illness
Comorbidity
Psychiatry and Mental health
030104 developmental biology
030220 oncology & carcinogenesis
Papers
business
Temporal comorbidity
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 20564724
- Volume :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- BJPsych Open
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....951463677dc6dfb97da6124516d10526