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The incidence and prevalence of pervasive developmental disorders: a Danish population-based studyM B Lauritsen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
Psychol Med 34:1339-46. 2004..Based on prevalence studies and the few incidence studies of pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) the prevalence and incidence of these disorders have been claimed to be increasing...- Psychiatric illness and risk factors for suicide in DenmarkP B Mortensen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute of Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
Lancet 355:9-12. 2000..Our aim was to assist in the choice of potential strategies for preventing suicide in the general population... - Effects of family history and place and season of birth on the risk of schizophreniaP B Mortensen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
N Engl J Med 340:603-8. 1999..Although a family history of schizophrenia is the best-established risk factor for schizophrenia, environmental factors such as the place and season of birth may also be important... 
Risk factors of suicide in inpatients and recently discharged patients with affective disorders. A case-control studyE H Høyer
Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University of Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, DK 8240 Risskov, Denmark
Eur Psychiatry 24:317-21. 2009..Patients with affective disorders are at high risk of suicide, especially during inpatient treatment and during the first year after discharge...- Decreased risk of acute appendicitis in patients with schizophrenia or manic-depressive psychosisH Ewald
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital, Skovagervej 2, DK 8240, Risskov, Denmark
Schizophr Res 49:287-93. 2001..Further studies of this relationship may help to clarify etiological or pathophysiological aspects of schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis... - Family history, place and season of birth as risk factors for schizophrenia in Denmark: a replication and reanalysisC B Pedersen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov and National Centre for Register Based Research, Aarhus University, Denmark
Br J Psychiatry 179:46-52. 2001..Although a family history of schizophrenia is the strongest individual risk factor for schizophrenia, environmental factors related to urbanicity may contribute to a substantial proportion of the population occurrence of the disease... - Obstetric complications in women with schizophreniaB E Bennedsen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Schizophr Res 47:167-75. 2001..These results show no evidence that schizophrenic women have a greater frequency of specific obstetric complications than non-schizophrenic women. Nevertheless, they are at increased risk for interventions during delivery... - A population-based register study of the association between schizophrenia and rheumatoid arthritisO Mors
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
Schizophr Res 40:67-74. 1999..Clinicians are reminded of the difficulties in detecting medical illness among individuals with schizophrenia... - Specific characteristics of suicide in ChinaP Qin
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, University Hospital in Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 103:117-21. 2001..CONCLUSION: These specific characteristics of suicide in China may possibly be interpreted in terms of traditional culture, social forces, political environment and economic status... - Mortality and causes of death in a total national sample of patients with affective disorders admitted for the first time between 1973 and 1993E H Høyer
Department of Psychiatric Demography, University of Aarhus, Risskov, Denmark
Br J Psychiatry 176:76-82. 2000..The high mortality from suicide in patients admitted to hospital with an affective disorder is well documented, although specific causes of mortality and changes in mortality are less well studied... - Congenital malformations, stillbirths, and infant deaths among children of women with schizophreniaB E Bennedsen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Aarhus University Hospital, Skovagervej 2, DK-8240 Risskov, Denmark
Arch Gen Psychiatry 58:674-9. 2001..However, the results should be interpreted in the light of failure to adjust for socioeconomic status, substance abuse, smoking status, and psychotropic medication use... - No evidence of increased risk for schizophrenia or bipolar affective disorder in persons with aneuploidies of the sex chromosomesO Mors
Department of Pschiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Denmark
Psychol Med 31:425-30. 2001.... - Suicide risk in patients hospitalised because of an affective disorder: a follow-up study, 1973-1993E H Høyer
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, DK 8240 Risskov, Denmark
J Affect Disord 78:209-17. 2004..The aim of this study was to identify risk factors for suicide related to the course of treatment... - Is schizophrenia really on the decrease?P Munk-Jørgensen
Institute of Psychiatric Demography, Aarhus, Denmark
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 242:244-7. 1993..The decrease might be genuine. In connection with this the theories about damage to the fetus during the gestation period are briefly discussed... - Sibship characteristics during upbringing and schizophrenia riskC B Pedersen
National Centre for Register-based Research, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Am J Epidemiol 160:652-60. 2004..Results of the association between sibship characteristics and schizophrenia from a single country may not be comparable with results from other countries, and sibship characteristics are minor determinants of schizophrenia risk... - The association between admission for poisoning with paracetamol or other weak analgesics and subsequent admission for psychiatric disorder: a Danish nationwide case-control studyP Jepsen
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus, Denmark
Aliment Pharmacol Ther 22:645-51. 2005..Many cases of paracetamol poisoning are with suicidal intent, but the association between paracetamol poisoning and subsequent psychiatric disorder is unknown... 
Risk of affective and stress related disorders among employees in human service professionsJ Wieclaw
Department of Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital, Aarhus C, Denmark
Occup Environ Med 63:314-9. 2006..To examine the risk of affective and stress related disorders among men and women employed in human service professions...- The relation between socioeconomic and demographic factors and tumour stage in women diagnosed with breast cancer in Denmark, 1983-1999S O Dalton
Department for Psychosocial Cancer Research, Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, Strandboulevarden 49, Copenhagen DK 2100, Denmark
Br J Cancer 95:653-9. 2006.... - Cancer risk among users of neuroleptic medication: a population-based cohort studyS O Dalton
Institute of Cancer Epidemiology, Danish Cancer Society, 49 Strandboulevarden, Copenhagen, Denmark
Br J Cancer 95:934-9. 2006..93; 0.74-1.17). Overall, treatment with neuroleptic medications was not related to a reduced risk of cancer, but for cancers of the rectum, colon and prostate there were suggestive decreases in risk... - Antipsychotics and risk of first-time hospitalization for myocardial infarction: a population-based case-control studyS Nakagawa
National Centre for Register-based Research, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
J Intern Med 260:451-8. 2006..CONCLUSION: These findings do not support the hypothesis that use of antipsychotics and in particular atypical antipsychotics is associated with increased risk of MI... - Socio-economic inequalities in first-time use of antidepressants: a population-based studyD G Hansen
Research Unit of General Practice, University of Southern Denmark, 5000 Odense, Denmark
Eur J Clin Pharmacol 60:51-5. 2004..To analyse whether first-time use of antidepressants (incidence) and selection of TCAs (tricyclic antidepressants) versus new-generation drugs are associated with socio-economic status and psychiatric history... - Does the impact of major stressful life events on the risk of developing depression change throughout life?L V Kessing
Department of Psychiatry, University of Copenhagen, Rigshospitalet, Denmark
Psychol Med 33:1177-84. 2003..It is unclear whether there is an interaction of ageing on the association between major life events and onset of depression... - [Why is the risk of schizophrenia greater in cities than in the country?]P B Mortensen
Aarhus Universitet, Center for Registerforskning
Ugeskr Laeger 163:4717-20. 2001.... - Death by homicide, suicide, and other unnatural causes in people with mental illness: a population-based studyU Hiroeh
School of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, University of Manchester, University Hospital of South Manchester, M20 8LR, Manchester, UK
Lancet 358:2110-2. 2001..Strategies to reduce mortality in the mentally ill are correct to emphasise the high risk of suicide, but they should also focus on other unnatural causes of death... - Reassessment of ADHD in a historical cohort of children treated with stimulants in the period 1969-1989S Dalsgaard
Psychiatric Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Aarhus University Hospital, Risskov, Denmark
Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry 10:230-9. 2001..This cohort is comparable to other clinically based ADHD cohorts as regards inattentive, hyperactive/impulsive symptoms, comorbidity, impairment, gender differences, intelligence and socio-economic status (SES)... - [Mortality in patients with affective disorder who commenced treatment with lithium. A 16-year follow-up]A Brodersen
Psykiatrisk Hospital, Arhus Universitetshospital, DK-8240 Risskov
Ugeskr Laeger 163:6428-32. 2001..DISCUSSION: Mortality, particularly death from suicide, was significantly increased in unselected affective disorder patients, who commenced lithium treatment, as compared with the background population... - Increased incidence of affective disorders, anxiety disorders, and non-natural mortality in women after breast cancer diagnosis: a nation-wide cohort study in DenmarkK Hjerl
Department of Psychiatry, Rigshospitalet University Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark
Acta Psychiatr Scand 105:258-64. 2002..CONCLUSION: Breast cancer patients have significantly increased incidence of psychiatric admission with affective disorders, anxiety disorders, and non-natural mortality... - Is head injury a risk factor for schizophrenia?A S Nielsen
Department of Psychiatric Demography, Institute for Basic Psychiatric Research, Psychiatric Hospital in Aarhus, Skovagervej 2, 8240 Risskov, Denmark
Schizophr Res 55:93-8. 2002..The few studies that have examined whether head injury is a risk factor for later schizophrenia have had important methodological problems... - Vitamin D status and measurements of markers of bone metabolism in patients with small intestinal resectionK V Haderslev
Department of Gastroenterology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Gut 52:653-8. 2003.... - Head injury as a risk factor for bipolar affective disorderP B Mortensen
National Centre for Register Based Research, Aarhus University, Taasingegade 1 DK 8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
J Affect Disord 76:79-83. 2003..Case reports have associated head injury with psychoses including affective disorders, but little is known regarding head injury as a risk factor for the onset of bipolar affective disorder... - Predictability of rehospitalization for schizophreniaJ M Haro
Department of Psychiatry, , Barcelona, Spain
Eur Arch Psychiatry Clin Neurosci 244:241-6. 1994..The results also show that the risk of rehospitalization depends on the previous tenures in the community...