Mortality rate ratios (MRRs) for persons with bipolar disorder during 1987–2006
| Men | Women | Total (both sexes) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cause of death | Cases | MRR (95% CI) | Cases | MRR (95% CI) | Cases | MRR (95% CI) | Excess cases (95% CI) | ||||
| All causes of death | 1874 | 2.48 | (2.37 to 2.59) | 2393 | 2.34 | (2.25 to 2.44) | 4267 | 2.40 | (2.33 to 2.47) | 2489 | (2361 to 2617) |
| Cardiovascular disease | 733 | 2.16 | (2.01 to 2.33) | 892 | 1.93 | (1.81 to 2.06) | 1625 | 2.03 | (1.93 to 2.13) | 824 | (745 to 903) |
| Other somatic deaths | 735 | 1.97 | (1.83 to 2.11) | 1154 | 2.19 | (2.06 to 2.32) | 1889 | 2.10 | (2.00 to 2.19) | 988 | (902 to 1073) |
| Suicide and other external deaths | 406 | 9.37 | (8.50 to 10.33) | 347 | 10.02 | (9.01 to 11.13) | 753 | 9.66 | (8.99 to 10.37) | 675 | (621 to 729) |
| Cerebrovascular disease | 144 | 2.29 | (1.94 to 2.70) | 224 | 1.86 | (1.63 to 2.12) | 368 | 2.00 | (1.81 to 2.22) | 184 | (147 to 222) |
| Coronary heart disease | 385 | 2.00 | (1.81 to 2.21) | 391 | 1.89 | (1.71 to 2.09) | 776 | 1.95 | (1.81 to 2.09) | 377 | (323 to 432) |
| Acute myocardial infarction | 227 | 1.89 | (1.66 to 2.15) | 213 | 1.78 | (1.55 to 2.03) | 440 | 1.83 | (1.67 to 2.01) | 200 | (159 to 241) |
| Cardiac arrest/ventricular fibrillation | 23 | 2.29 | (1.52 to 3.45) | 32 | 1.62 | (1.15 to 2.30) | 55 | 1.85 | (1.42 to 2.41) | 25 | (12 to 42) |