Mental disorders and specific types
of accidental death
We also examined the associations between mental disorders and
the most commonly reported types of accidental death: accidental
poisoning, falls and transport accidents. After adjusting for age,
other sociodemographic factors and substance use disorders, any
mental disorder was associated with highly increased risks of
death from accidental poisoning (5.5-fold among women and
3.2-fold among men) or falls (4.2-fold among women and 4.5-fold
among men); and modestly increased risks of transport accident
death (1.7-fold among women and 1.3-fold among men) (Table
3; for full data, see online Table DS2).