A psychiatric diagnosis correlates with an increased risk of earlier death. This was shown by a major study that Associate Professor Oleguer Plana-Ripoll of the Department of Clinical Medicine at Aarhus University published in the Lancet in 2019. Now he is receiving the prestigious Michele Tansella Award for his work.

In the study, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll and his colleagues analysed the health data of no less than 7,369,926 people under 95 years of age who were residents in Denmark in the period 1 January 1995 to 31 December 2015. The researchers were given access to information on psychiatric diagnoses via the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register, and they could obtain information on the date and causes of death via the Danish Registry of Causes of Death. The research project showed that all psychiatric diagnoses were associated with an increased risk of earlier death.

The Michele Tansella Award is awarded every second year to a young researcher under the age of 40 who is the first author of “an outstanding publication in the field of epidemiological psychiatry, community psychiatry, or mental health service evaluation”.

Contact

Associate Professor Oleguer Plana-Ripoll
Aarhus University, Department of Clinical Medicine - Department of Clinical Epidemiology
Email: opr@clin.au.dk
Tel.: +45 8716 6034