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Researchers have found higher all-cause mortality among offspring of parents with histories of psychiatric hospitalization than among those whose parents lack such histories. To determine risk for death from unnatural causes, the investigators have reanalyzed the data, which came from Danish registries involving all singleton births (97% of total births) between 1973 and 1997.
Because unnatural causes accounted for only 2% of deaths during the first year of life compared with 50% at other ages, the investigators examined the data for three age groups: younger children (1–4 years), older children (5–15 years), and young adults (16–25 years). With this age grouping, 84% of the suicides occurred in the young adult group. Parental hospitalizatio…