Suicide Risk Factors
Risk factors for suicide are different in Whites and African-Americans
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 13th, 2005
"We investigated whether the substance use problems of excessive alcohol consumption and marijuana use, firearm availability, depressive symptoms, and mental health service utilization, differed among White and African-American suicide decedents compared with natural cause-of-death decedents. The subjects were a representative sample of 22,957 deceased individuals aged 15 years or older from the 1993 U.S. National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS)," researchers in the United States report.
"A matched case-control study was constructed for suicide decedents aged 15 to 64 years,...
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