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Certain types of noncancer affliction altitude are associated with an added accident for suicide, a new abstraction suggests.
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A abstraction conducted by board at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor showed that analytic pain, aback pain, and migraine, but not arthritis or neuropathy, were associated with an added accident for suicide.
Although some of this accident appears to be due to co-occurring brainy bloom problems, there may be article about the acquaintance of affliction that additionally contributes anon to suicide risk, advance columnist Mark A. Ilgen, PhD, told Medscape Medical News.
"Treatment providers, decidedly those who assignment in affliction analysis settings, should be acquainted of these risks and accede brainy bloom and suicide accident assessments in their patients," Dr. Ilgen said.
Previous analysis suggests that individuals with affliction may be at added accident for baleful thoughts and behaviors, but it is acceptable that "not all affliction is created equal" in agreement of its affiliation with suicide, and that the affiliation amid affliction and suicide could vary, depending on the blazon of affliction patients experience, Dr. Ilgen said.
The abstraction was appear online May 22 in JAMA Psychiatry.
Arthritis Best Accepted Dx
In the accepted study, the board approved to accept the amount to which specific affliction altitude accompanying to suicide risk. The board additionally capital to accept whether affliction remained an important augur of suicide, alike afterwards authoritative for added brainy bloom altitude that are associated with both affliction and suicide risk.
The aggregation looked at analysis annal of all patients (n = 4,863,036) who were apparent in the Veterans Bloom Administration arrangement in budgetary year 2005 and who were animate at the alpha of budgetary year 2006.
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They again advised the affiliation amid baseline analytic diagnoses of the afterward pain-related conditions: arthritis, aback pain, migraine, neuropathy, cephalalgia or astriction headache, fibromyalgia, and analytic pain, as able-bodied as the admeasurement to which anniversary of these altitude predicted accident for suicide in budgetary years 2006 to 2008.
Arthritis was the best accepted diagnosis, occurring in 2,076,514 patients (42.7%), followed by aback pain, in 1,111,187 (22.8%). Analytic affliction was the atomic common diagnosis, occurring 18,145 patients (0.4%). Suicide occurred in 4823 (0.01%) in the consecutive budgetary years.
After authoritative for demographic and added factors, including age, sex, and Charlson score, the advisers begin that except for arthritis and neuropathy, anniversary affliction action was associated with an animated accident for suicide.
Psychogenic affliction was associated with the greatest accident for suicide afterlife (hazard arrangement [HR], 2.61; 95% aplomb breach [CI], 1.82 - 3.74).
Back affliction was associated with a 33% added accident for suicide afterlife (HR, 1.33; 95% CI, 1.22 - 1.45), cephalalgia with a 68% added accident (HR, 1.68; 95% CI, 1.28 - 2.20), cephalalgia or astriction cephalalgia with a 38% added accident (HR, 1.38; 95% CI, 1.17 - 1.64), and fibromyalgia with a 45% added accident (HR, 1.45; 95% CI, 1.16 - 1.81).
When these analyses were added controlled for accessory psychiatric conditions, these associations amid affliction altitude and suicide afterlife were reduced.
However, cogent associations remained for aback affliction (HR, 1.13; 95% CI, 1.03 - 1.24), cephalalgia (HR, 1.34; 95% CI 1.02 - 1.77), and analytic affliction (HR, 1.58; 95% CI, 1.11 - 2.26).
Controversial Diagnosis
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"Psychogenic affliction is listed aural the ICD-9 [International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision] coding arrangement and characterizes affliction that is acquired by cerebral instead of actually concrete factors," Dr. Ilgen explained.
Dr. Mark Ilgen
"This is a analysis that is acclimated almost infrequently aural the VA, and there is ample altercation amid affliction and brainy bloom professionals about the authority and account of this diagnosis," he said.
Because of the blazon of abstracts that were analyzed in this study, it is absurd to acquaint what analysis providers were cerebration back they acclimated the analysis of analytic pain, Dr. Ilgen added.
"Still, this analysis had the arch affiliation with suicide of any of the affliction disorders that we examined. It is my assumption that a analysis of analytic affliction is accustomed to patients with affliction that is ailing accepted and that may be decidedly difficult to treat. Also, there is the achievability that patients with this analysis are decidedly balked with their affliction and hopeless about the resolution of their affliction condition. I do not adapt our allegation to announce that 'psychogenic pain,' as it is authentic in the ICD-9, is anon causing suicide, rather, that there is article about actuality diagnosed with this action that is associated with a decidedly poor prognosis."
Need for Screening and Treatment
Commenting on this abstraction for Medscape Medical News, Colonel (retired) Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, MD, arch medical administrator for Washington, DC, Department of Brainy Bloom and an able on suicide in the aggressive and veterans population, alleged it important, although not a surprise.
"It's not a adumbration because anecdotally, we accept accepted that affliction is a accident agency for abasement and for suicide. But it is attractive at a actual ample population, and this adds to its importance," she said.
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Dr. Ritchie, who retired from the army 2 years ago, said she saw this firsthand.
"Pain was a above accident factor. Many account members, afterwards 12 or 20 years of service, accept a lot of aches and pains. So in the military, affliction is a accident factor."
She added that for her, the "take-home message" is that clinicians should be evaluating suicide accident in all patients with pain.
"The accepted questions for evaluating accident for suicide are, 'Have you accustomed abroad your possessions?' and 'Have you fabricated a will?,' but it's not a connected catechism in the psychiatric ambience to ask about pain, and it actually should be."
Also, allurement about affliction is not enough. Clinicians should accomplish abiding that patients with affliction are accepting adapted treatment, she added.
The abstraction was sponsored by the Veterans Bloom Administration. Dr. Ilgen and Dr. Ritchie address no accordant banking relationships.
JAMA Psychiatry. Appear online May 22, 2013. Abstract
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