Contemporary sample: cause of death by diagnosis
| Schizophrenia (F20/F25) N=227 | Delusional disorder (F22) N=48 | Acute and transient psychosis (F23) N=66 | Other psychoses (F29) N=14 | All psychoses N=355 | |||||||||||
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| 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 |
| Suicide/open | 7 | 10 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 13 | 16 |
| Cardiovascular | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 8 |
| Respiratory | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Cancer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Other | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| All causes | 7 | 11 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 25 | 33 |
| Average age of death | 29.5 | 31.3 | 31.6 | – | 78.6 | 72.7 | 54.7 | 60.3 | 60.9 | 39.5 | 45.9 | 45.9 | 35.6 | 48.7 | 51.2 |