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Mental disorders in ulcerative colitis: Suicide, divorce, psychosis, hospitalization for mental disease, alcoholism, and consumption of psychotropic drugs in 178 patients subjected to colectomy

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Diseases of the Colon & Rectum

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The population in the Nordic countries is relatively homogenous. In 178 Norwegian patients subjected to colectomy for ulcerative colitis the frequencies of suicide, divorce, psychosis, and hospitalization for mental disorders, and consumption of psychotropic drugs, did not differ significantly from corresponding frequencies in the general population.

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  1. Surgical Department B, Rikshospitalet, National Hospital, University of Oslo, Olso, Norway

    O. P. N. Grüner M.D., R. Naas M.D., E. Gjone M.D., A. Flatmark M.D. & B. Fretheim M.D.

  2. Medical Department A, Rikshospitalet, National Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

    O. P. N. Grüner M.D., R. Naas M.D., E. Gjone M.D., A. Flatmark M.D. & B. Fretheim M.D.

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Grüner, O.P.N., Naas, R., Gjone, E. et al. Mental disorders in ulcerative colitis: Suicide, divorce, psychosis, hospitalization for mental disease, alcoholism, and consumption of psychotropic drugs in 178 patients subjected to colectomy. Dis Colon Rectum 21, 37–39 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02586544

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