Arteriosclerosis related deaths in severe neurosis

1,482 previous in-patients with the diagnosis of neurosis from three hospitals in Birmingham, U.K., were followed up after a mean of 10.9 years. 91% of the sample were traced and 139 patients were found to have died. When those causes of death from the International Classification of Diseases indicating arteriosclerosis were summed, there was a highly significant increase of death from arteriosclerosis in the sample compared with expected mortality. Death from accident, poisoning and violence was also highly significantly increased, especially self-inflicted death. There was also an increase in deaths from respiratory causes.