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Table 2 Proportion of children with a diagnosis according to parental mental health conditions

From: Children of parents with different severities of mental health conditions have higher risk of somatic morbidity: a Danish nationwide register-based cohort study

Disease grouping according to the ICD-10 classification and mortality/death

COHORT

COHORT 1

 < 1 year age group (N = 1,028,587)

COHORT 2

1–5 years age group (N = 965,253)

COHORT 3

6–16 years age group (N = 680,799)

MENTAL HEALTH CONDTION

No

(n = 754,444)

Minor (n = 149,613)

Moderate (n = 110,795)

Severe (n = 13,735)

No

(n = 703,643)

Minor (n = 144,889)

Moderate (n = 103,422)

Severe (n = 13,299)

No

(n = 421,511)

Minor (n = 153,755)

Moderate (n = 90,198)

Severe (n = 15,335)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

% (95% CI)

Infectious

5.6 (5.6–5.7)

7.5 (7.4–7.7)

8.6 (8.5–8.8)

9.2 (8.7–9.6)

9.3 (9.3–9.4)

12.0 (11.9–12.2)

13.7 (13.5–13.9)

14.4 (13.8–15.0)

3.6 (3.5–3.6)

4.0 (3.9–4.1)

4.8 (4.7–5.0)

4.5 (4.2–4.8)

Neoplasms

0.5 (0.5–0.5)

0.6 (0.6–0.7)

0.6 (0.6–0.7)

0.6 (0.4–0.7)

0.7 (0.7–0.7)

0.8 (0.7–0.8)

0.8 (0.7–0.8)

0.8 (0.7–1.0)

1.0 (1.0–1.1)

1.0 (1.0–1.1)

1.0 (0.9–1.0)

1.0 (0.8–1.1)

Blood

0.2 (0.2–0.2)

0.3 (0.3–0.3)

0.3 (0.3–0.4)

0.3 (0.2–0.4)

0.7 (0.7–0.8)

0.9 (0.8–0.9)

1.0 (0.9–1.1)

0.8 (0.6–0.9)

0.6 (0.6–0.6)

0.6 (0.6–0.7)

0.7 (0.7–0.8)

0.6 (0.5–0.7)

Endocrine

1.1 (1.1–1.1)

1.6 (1.5–1.6)

1.7 (1.6–1.7)

1.9 (1.7–2.1)

2.4 (2.3–2.4)

3.3 (3.2–3.4)

3.6 (3.5–3.7)

3.9 (3.5–4.2)

3.0 (3.0–3.1)

3.5 (3.4–3.6)

4.1 (4.0–4.2)

4.1 (3.8–4.4)

Mental

0.3 (0.2–0.3)

0.5 (0.4–0.5)

0.6 (0.5–0.6)

0.7 (0.6–0.9)

0.8 (0.8–0.8)

1.2 (1.1–1.2)

1.6 (1.5–1.7)

2.0 (1.7–2.2)

0.8 (0.8–0.8)

1.3 (1.3–1.4)

1.8 (1.8–1.9)

2.0 (1.8–2.3)

Nervous system

0.6 (0.5–0.6)

0.7 (0.7–0.7)

0.8 (0.8–0.9)

1.0 (0.8–1.2)

1.3 (1.3–1.4)

1.8 (1.7–1.8)

2.0 (1.9–2.0)

2.4 (2.2–2.7)

2.1 (2.0–2.1)

2.5 (2.4–2.6)

2.6 (2.5–2.7)

2.5 (2.3–2.8)

Eye

0.8 (0.8–0.9)

1.1 (1.0–1.1)

1.3 (1.2–1.4)

1.5 (1.3–1.8)

2.4 (2.3–2.4)

2.8 (2.7–2.9)

3.2 (3.1–3.3)

3.5 (3.2–3.8)

2.5 (2.4–2.5)

2.8 (2.7–2.9)

3.1 (3.0–3.2)

3.0 (2.8–3.3)

Ear

1.8 (1.8–1.9)

2.1 (2.1–2.2)

2.6 (2.5–2.7)

2.7 (2.4–3.0)

5.2 (5.1–5.2)

6.5 (6.4–6.6)

7.4 (7.2–7.5)

7.3 (6.9–7.8)

2.6 (2.5–2.6)

2.8 (2.7–2.9)

3.0 (2.9–3.1)

2.8 (2.5–3.1)

Circulatory

0.3 (0.3–0.3)

0.3 (0.3–0.4)

0.4 (0.4–0.4)

0.4 (0.3–0.5)

0.4 (0.4–0.5)

0.5 (0.5–0.5)

0.6 (0.5–0.6)

0.5 (0.4–0.6)

0.7 (0.7–0.7)

0.8 (0.7–0.8)

0.8 (0.8–0.9)

0.9 (0.7–1.0)

Respiratory

8.4 (8.4–8.5)

10.5 (10.3–10.6)

12.3 (12.1–12.5)

13.2 (12.6–13.8)

16.6 (16.5–16.7)

20.3 (20.1–20.5)

22.7 (22.5–23.0)

23.3 (22.6–24.0)

24.7 (24.6–24.8)

28.9 (28.7–29.2)

32.8 (32.5–33.1)

32.5 (31.7–33.2)

Digestive

2.7 (2.7–2.8)

4.2 (4.1–4.3)

4.8 (4.7–5.0)

5.7 (5.3–6.1)

4.7 (4.7–4.8)

6.0 (5.9–6.2)

6.6 (6.5–6.8)

6.9 (6.5–7.4)

5.7 (5.7–5.8)

6.3 (6.2–6.4)

7.2 (7.0–7.3)

7.2 (6.8–7.6)

Skin

1.3 (1.2–1.3)

1.5 (1.4–1.5)

1.7 (1.6–1.8)

1.8 (1.6–2.1)

3.5 (3.5–3.6)

4.0 (3.9–4.1)

4.7 (4.6–4.8)

4.7 (4.3–5.1)

3.0 (2.9–3.0)

3.2 (3.1–3.3)

3.7 (3.6–3.8)

3.5 (3.2–3.8)

Musculoskeletal

0.8 (0.7–0.8)

0.9 (0.9–0.9)

1.0 (0.9–1.0)

1.0 (0.8–1.1)

3.7 (3.6–3.7)

4.2 (4.1–4.3)

4.4 (4.3–4.5)

4.4 (4.0–4.7)

6.9 (6.8–7.0)

7.3 (7.2–7.4)

7.6 (7.4–7.8)

7.2 (6.8–7.6)

Genitourinary

1.0 (0.9–1.0)

1.3 (1.2–1.3)

1.3 (1.2–1.3)

1.2 (1.0–1.4)

2.9 (2.8–2.9)

3.4 (3.4–3.5)

3.6 (3.5–3.7)

3.5 (3.2–3.9)

3.7 (3.7–3.8)

4.0 (3.9–4.1)

4.6 (4.5–4.8)

4.3 (4.0–4.7)

Perinatal

25.7 (25.6–25.8)

30.4 (30.1–30.6)

31.6 (31.4–31.9)

34.4 (33.6–35.2)

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

-

Malformations

5.6 (5.6–5.7)

6.7 (6.5–6.8)

6.9 (6.8–7.1)

7.1 (6.7–7.5)

4.8 (4.8–4.9)

5.5 (5.4–5.6)

5.8 (5.7–6.0)

6.6 (6.1–7.0)

3.4 (3.4–3.5)

3.9 (3.8–4.0)

4.0 (3.8–4.1)

4.1 (3.8–4.4)

Other symptoms

7.3 (7.3–7.4)

9.9 (9.7–10.0)

11.3 (11.1–11.5)

12.4 (11.8–12.9)

13.4 (13.3–13.5)

16.4 (16.2–16.6)

18.3 (18.0–18.5)

19.8 (19.1–20.5)

13.0 (12.9–13.1)

14.7 (14.5–14.9)

16.7 (16.5–17.0)

16.6 (16.0–17.2)

Injury

3.8 (3.7–3.8)

4.3 (4.2–4.4)

5.5 (5.3–5.6)

5.5 (5.1–5.9)

41.0 (40.9–41.1)

41.8 (41.6–42.1)

45.8 (45.5–46.1)

45.6 (44.8–46.4)

47.7 (47.6–47.9)

47.5 (47.3–47.8)

50.0 (49.7–50.3)

49.0 (48.2–49.8)

Mortality/Death

0.4 (0.3–0.4)

0.4 (0.4–0.5)

0.5 (0.4–0.5)

0.5 (0.4–0.6)

0.1 (0.1–0.1)

0.1 (0.1–0.1)

0.1 (0.1–0.1)

0.1 (0.1–0.2)

0.1 (0.0–0.1)

0.1 (0.0–0.1)

0.1 (0.0–0.1)

0.1 (0.0–0.

  1. Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period are not relevant for cohorts 2 and 3.
  2. CI confidence interval
  3. International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision (ICD-10) codes – Infectious (ICD-10: A00-B99), Neoplasm (ICD-10: C00-D48), Blood (ICD-10: D50-D89), Endocrine (ICD-10: E00-E99), Mental (ICD-10: F00-F99), Nervous system (ICD-10: G00-G99), Eye (ICD-10: H00-H59), Ear (ICD-10: H60-H99), Circulatory (ICD-10: I00-I99), Respiratory (ICD-10: J00-J99), Digestive (ICD-10: K00-K93), Skin (ICD-10: L00-L99), Musculoskeletal (ICD-10: M00-M99), Genitourinary (ICD-10: N00-N99), Perinatal (ICD-10: P00-P96): Not relevant for cohort 2 and 3, Malformations (ICD-10: Q00-Q99), Other symptoms (ICD-10: R00-R99) and Injury (ICD-10: S00-T98)
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