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Data on Suicide Detailed by Researchers at University of Uppsala

Published in Mental Health Weekly Digest, September 26th, 2011

2011 SEP 26 -- "This study investigates whether changes in registration and coding practices influenced official suicide rates in Norway from 1988 to 2002. A Poisson regression model was used to evaluate rates of suicide and potentially competing underlying causes of death," scientists writing in the Journal of Clinical Epidemiology report.

"Setting in Norway 1988-2002. From 1988 to 1994, suicide mortality decreased significantly, by 23.7%. Simultaneously, rates of causes of death potentially masking suicide decreased or remained fairly stable. From 1994 to 2002, however, there were no significant changes in suicide rates but accidental poisoning,...

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