Historical sample: cause of death by diagnosis
| Schizophrenia F20/F25 N=605 | Delusional disorder F22 N=143 | Acute and transient psychosis F23 N=143 | Other psychoses F29 N=135 | Catatonia F06.1/F20.2 N=48 | All psychoses N=1074 | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of death | 1 year | 5 year | 10 year | 1 year | 5 year | 10 year | 1 year | 5 year | 10 year | 1 year | 5 year | 10 year | 1 year | 5 year | 10 year | 1 year | 5 year | 10 year |
| Suicide | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Cardiovascular | 0 | 1 | 17 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 44 |
| Respiratory | 5 | 14 | 20 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 12 | 30 | 45 |
| Cancer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| Tuberculosis | 6 | 51 | 82 | 0 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 67 | 103 |
| Dysentery | 1 | 4 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 15 |
| Other | 2 | 10 | 24 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 10 | 16 | 33 | 53 |
| All causes | 15 | 81 | 153 | 4 | 23 | 40 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 9 | 23 | 33 | 15 | 25 | 29 | 50 | 161 | 266 |
| Average age of death | 40.4 | 37.0 | 45.6 | 49.5 | 55.6 | 58.4 | 40.5 | 43.3 | 46.2 | 48.2 | 51.2 | 56.6 | 45.7 | 43.3 | 44.7 | 44.9 | 46.1 | 50.3 |
‘Other’ causes of death in the historical sample include ‘exhaustion’, septicaemia, kidney disease and erysipelas.