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Association between benign prostatic hyperplasia and suicide in South Korea: A nationwide retrospective cohort study

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  • Sang-Uk Lee
  • Sang Hyub Lee
  • Ah-Hyun So
  • Jong-Ik Park
  • Soojung Lee
  • In-Hwan Oh
  • Chang-Mo Oh

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Benign prostatic hyperplasia is a commonly diagnosed disease in elderly men, but elderly men with benign prostatic hyperplasia are more likely to have a lower quality of life and depressive symptoms. This study aims to examine the association benign prostatic hyperplasia patients with suicide death relative to a control group comprising individuals without benign prostatic hyperplasia. We used the Korean National Health Insurance Service-National Sample Cohort from 2006 to 2015 comprising of 193,785 Korean adults ≥40 years old, and followed-up for suicide death during the 8.7 years period. Cox-proportional hazard model was used to estimate hazard ratios for suicide among patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia. From 2006 to 2010, a total of 32,215 people were newly diagnosed with benign prostatic hyperplasia. The suicide rate of people without benign prostatic hyperplasia was 61.6 per 100,000 person-years, whereas that of patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia was 97.3 per 100,000 person-years, 1.58 times higher than the control group (p

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  • Sang-Uk Lee & Sang Hyub Lee & Ah-Hyun So & Jong-Ik Park & Soojung Lee & In-Hwan Oh & Chang-Mo Oh, 2022. "Association between benign prostatic hyperplasia and suicide in South Korea: A nationwide retrospective cohort study," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 17(3), pages 1-11, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0265060
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0265060
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