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