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Middle East Current Psychiatry

Table 5 Study sample death causes and mean age

From: Long-term observations on the mortality of mentally ill patients admitted to a short-stay psychiatric hospital: 23 years retrospective Egyptian study

Cause of death

N=46

SUD or unknown

N

19 (41.3%)

Mean age(M+/-SD)

39.1±11

Neurological (CVS)

N

5 (10.9%)

Mean age (M±SD)

41.7±18.3

Cardiac

N

7 (15.2%)

Mean age (M±SD)

47.8±9.6

Other medical

N

15 (32.6%)

Mean age (M±SD)

40±9.6

  1. SUD sudden unexplained death, CVS cerebro-vascular stroke, other medical renal failure, respiratory, bleeding, metabolic, and septicemia
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