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Neurological disorders can be disabling and deadly and have been linked to suicide. These researchers used Danish national-registry retrospective data on 7,300,395 individuals to examine associations between neurologic illness and deaths by suicide between 1980 and 2016; 17% of people had neurologic illnesses.
In analyses controlling for demographics, physical comorbidities, prior mental illness, and self-harm history, people with neurologic illnesses were 1.8 times more likely to die by suicide than people without these illnesses. Risks were largest for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Huntington disease (incidence rate ratio [IRR] for each, 4.9). Other disorders with heightened risks included multiple sclerosis (IRR, 2.2), head injury (IR…