Key clinical point: People with neurologic disorders have a higher rate of suicide, compared with people without neurologic conditions.

Major finding: The suicide incidence rate among people with a neurologic disorder was 44.0 per 100,000 person-years, whereas the rate among people without a neurologic disorder was 20.1 per 100,000 person-years. The adjusted incidence rate ratio for people with a neurologic disorder was 1.8. The rate ratio was highest during the 3 months after diagnosis, at 3.1.

Study details: A retrospective, population-based study of more than 7.3 million people aged 15 years or older who lived in Denmark between 1980 and 2016.

Disclosures: The study was supported by a grant from the Psychiatric Research Foundation in Denmark. The authors reported that they had no disclosures.