Abstract
Individuals with Parkinson's disease may be at significantly higher risk for suicidal thinking and behavior than people without the disease, according to a meta‐analysis published last week in JAMA Neurology. “Patients with [Parkinson's disease] possess multiple risk factors for suicidality, such as advanced age, living with a chronic condition, as well as limitations in physical mobility and functional ability,” wrote Aaron Shengting Mai, M.S., of the National University of Singapore; Yinxia Chao, M.D., Ph.D., of the National Neuroscience Institute Singapore; and colleagues. Efforts at early detection and management of suicidality in patients with Parkinson's can help to reduce patients' risk of death and improve their quality of life, they continued. “Patients with [Parkinson's disease] often experience great psychiatric comorbidity, of which the most prominent is depression,” the researchers wrote. “Depressive mood disorders are the greatest risk factors for both suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior and are present in almost half of patients with Parkinson's.”
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