Persons diagnosed with PCOS face 8-fold increase in suicide risk

Researchers from Taipei Veterans General Hospital studied data from the Taiwanese nationwide database from 1997 to 2012 for 18,960 women diagnosed with PCOS to assess suicide risk, accounting for psychiatric comorbid conditions and age group. They found that persons diagnosed with PCOS faced an 8.47-fold increase in risk for suicide attempt compared with the control group, even after accounting for demographics, psychiatric comorbid conditions, physical conditions, and all-cause clinical visits. An adolescent subgroup had a notable 5.38-fold elevated risk for suicide attempt. The authors note that their findings remained robust when excluding the first year or the first 3 years of observation.

Reference:

Tien-Wei Hsu, Yu-Chen Kao, Shih-Jen Tsai, Ya-Mei Bai, Suicide Attempts After a Diagnosis of Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, Annals of Internal Medicine, https://doi.org/10.7326/M23-2240.