People with obsessive-compulsive disorder have three times the risk of đột quỵ - đột quỵ Center
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a serious chronic mental illness, which is mainly manifested as recurring obsessive thoughts or behaviors, including obsessive suspicion, fear of dirt, symmetrical needs, over-organization, repeated inspections, etc. It is characterized by recurring And unwanted thoughts and behaviors. Previous studies have found that obsessive-compulsive disorder usually occurs after a đột quỵ or other chấn thương não. At present, it is not clear whether OCD will increase the risk of đột quỵ.
Recently, researchers from the Department of Psychiatry at the Chinese Taipei Veterans General Hospital published a nghiên cứu paper entitled "Increased Risk of đột quỵ in bệnh nhân With Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder: A Nationwide Longitudinal nghiên cứu" in the "đột quỵ" journal of the Journal of the American Heart Association.
The nghiên cứu found that adults with obsessive-compulsive disorder have more than three times the risk of ischemic đột quỵ in later life than adults without obsessive-compulsive disorder.
The researchers checked the health records from 2001 to 2010 in the Taiwan National Health Insurance nghiên cứu Database to compare the đột quỵ risk of 28,064 adults with OCD and 28,064 adults without OCD. The average age of obsessive-compulsive disorder diagnosed is 37 years, and the proportion of women and men in the dữ liệu is almost equal. The researchers compared the 11-year đột quỵ risk between the two groups.
Survival curve of ischemic or hemorrhagic đột quỵ in the obsessive-compulsive disorder group (solid line) and the kiểm soát group (dashed line)
Studies have shown that in the past 11 years, people with OCD are more than three times more likely to have a đột quỵ than people without OCD. dữ liệu shows that people aged 60 and above are the most threatened.
Comparison of the risk of ischemic đột quỵ and hemorrhagic đột quỵ between the obsessive-compulsive disorder group and the kiểm soát group at different ages
The nghiên cứu authors said that even if other factors such as obesity, heart disease, smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol and type 2 bệnh tiểu đường are taken into account, the risk of đột quỵ still exists.
When death is used as a risk assessment, obsessive-compulsive disorder is still associated with an increased risk of ischemic đột quỵ, but not with hemorrhagic đột quỵ. In addition, in bệnh nhân with obsessive-compulsive disorder, the use of drugs for obsessive-compulsive disorder is not associated with the risk of ischemic or hemorrhagic đột quỵ.
The researchers emphasize that the nghiên cứu is observational, so it can only show the association between obsessive-compulsive disorder and đột quỵ, and cannot prove causality.
In short, the nghiên cứu kết quả suggest that bệnh nhân with obsessive-compulsive disorder should be encouraged to maintain a healthy lifestyle, such as quitting smoking, regular physical exercise, weight kiểm soát, etc., to giảm risk factors related to đột quỵ.