Prague, April 27 (CTK) – Mental disorders kill four times more people in the Czech Republic now than ten years ago, daily Pravo writes yesterday, referring to statistics.
In 2005, mental disorders caused death of 284 people, while in 2014 it was 1210 in the country with a population of 10.5 million inhabitants.
On the under hand, the suicide rate has long been about 1,500 and the number of people dying of sexually transmitted diseases has been decreasing year-on-year.
In 2014, the highest number of people or 48,500 died of circulation diseases, which has been the lowest figure since 2005 (55,000).
Almost 28,000 died of tumours, more than 6,000 of respiratory disorders and 4,500 of gastrointestinal diseases in 2014.
Moreover, almost 6,000 people died as a consequence of traffic accidents, injuries and poisoning.
A total of 1488 people committed suicide, which is a long-time average figure, Pravo writes.
The death toll caused by sexually transmitted and urinary tract diseases has been decreasing. They caused 1220 deaths in 2014, while in 2005 it was 1600.
Out of other causes of death, 572 people died after a fall, 141 got drowned, 48 died in fire or choked to death by smoke of fire and 98 were killed by natural forces in 2014.
On the contrary, no one has been killed by lightning in the Czech Republic since 2009, Pravo adds.
The statistics of the causes of deaths in the country for 2015 will be released in about six months, Czech Statistical Office (CSU) spokesman Tomas Chramecky said.
The highest rise has been monitored in mental disorders, Pravo says.
Twenty-nine percent of the population have been diagnosed with anxiety disorders and some 25 percent suffer from behavioral disorders. In 2006-20010, the number of depression cases doubled.
Almost every other inhabitant suffers from some form of a mental disorder during the lifetime in the Czech Republic, Pravo says.
“The trend is following: the incidence of mental disorders has been increasing and they appear at a lower age, most frequently at the age of 14,” Jiri Raboch, head doctor of the first psychiatric clinic at the General Teaching Hospital in Prague, told the paper.
“The rise in the mental disorder incidence in the population is connected with high social and economic difference,” Raboch said, adding that they occur more often in lower social lawyers.
He notes that addictions appear mostly at the age of around 20 years and mood disorders around 30 yaers.
However, the steep rise in the death toll caused by mental disorders is primarily due to dementia from which more and more people suffer and have been dying in the Czech Republic, Raboch told Pravo.
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