Discrepant comorbidity between minority and white suicides: a national multiple cause-of-death analysis

BMC Psychiatry

Table 4 Logistic regression results for suicide-associated comorbidities in three racial-ethnic groups: United States, 1999–2003

	Whites			Blacks			Hispanics
Medical Condition (ICD-10)	Odds Ratio*	95% CI (Wald)		Odds Ratio	95% CI (Wald)		Odds Ratio*	95% CI (Wald)
Mental/Behavioral Disorders
Organic (F00–F09)	0.1	0.07	0.11	0.3	0.13	0.54	0.2	0.07	0.49
Alcohol Use (F10)	0.5	0.49	0.53	0.3	0.26	0.38	0.3	0.25	0.37
Other substance use (F11–F19)	0.2	0.18	0.21	0.1	0.09	0.15	0.1	0.09	0.16
Schizophrenia (F20–F29)	2.4 **	2.07	2.86	4.2 **	2.73	6.37	4.1 **	2.01	8.22
Mood disorder/depression (F30–F39)	31.9**	29.80	34.13	60.9 **	42.80	86.63	34.7 **	23.36	51.62
Other mental health (F40–F99)	1.7 **	1.43	1.94	1.1	0.55	2.31	2.6 **	1.24	5.45
Physical Disease
HIV (B20–B24)	1.0	0.76	1.45	0.5	0.29	1.02	1.3	0.54	2.98
Other communicable (A+B residual)	0.2	0.17	0.23	0.3	0.19	0.43	0.2	0.15	0.42
Cancer (C00–C99)	1.8 **	1.69	1.93	1.8 **	1.36	2.48	1.2	0.74	1.78
Nervous system (G00–G99)	0.7	0.65	0.72	0.9	0.71	1.05	1.5 **	1.24	1.72
Circulatory (I00–I99)	0.2	0.20	0.22	0.2	0.20	0.25	0.2	0.20	0.27
Respiratory (J00–J99)	0.2	0.18	0.20	0.2	0.20	0.31	0.3	0.22	0.37
Digestive (K00–K99)	0.8	0.61	0.71	0.5	0.39	0.74	0.6	0.42	0.71
Other diseases (D,E,H,L-R)	0.3	0.30	0.33	0.4	0.31	0.42	0.4	0.36	0.50

* Odds ratios adjusted for gender and categorical age (15–34; 35–64; 65+ years). Unintentional injury decedents served as the referent in all 14 logistic regression analyses for each racial-ethnic group.
**Suicide is positively associated with that type of comorbidity.

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