[Fatal outcomes in schizophrenia (analysis of random hospital material for different forms of the disease)].
Two hundred cases of lethal outcomes in schizophrenic patients (who died at one of the Moscow hospitals within a period of 1971 to 1978) are analyzed. These were patients with various forms of the disease: continuously progressing (91 cases), paroxysmal progressing (83 cases), and recurrent (26 cases). It was found that the age distribution of the deceased was close to that indicated by world statistics for developed countries with a shift to the left, mainly, at the expense of males who die at a younger age than females. By the time of the death the ratios between the disease forms changed: the percentages of the continuously progressing and paroxysmal progressing forms in the hospital patients got closer (45.5 and 41.5%, respectively); this brought the distribution to the disease forms in those patients nearer to that observed in schizophrenic outpatients. The somatic causes of the death were similar to those characteristic for the general population: these were cardiovascular diseases (43.0%), malignant neoplasms (15.5%), respiratory diseases (11.5%). The underlying psychic disease was the cause of the death in 22% of the cases. It manifested in the forms of terminal hypostatic pneumonia (54.4%); cachexy (25%); an additional psychic disease (13.7%), and a febrile attack (6.8%).U
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001927:Brain Diseases / Q000401:mortality; D002100:Cachexia / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D005334:Fever / Q000401:mortality; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009031:Moscow; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000401:mortality; D012008:Recurrence; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000150:complications / Q000401:mortality*; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000401:mortality; D013577:Syndrome
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