BACKGROUND Previously, we showed the inverse association between lithium in drinking water and male suicide in Kyushu Island. The narrow variation in meteorological factors of Kyushu Island and a considerable amount of evidence regarding the role of the factors on suicide provoked the necessities of adjusting the association by the wide variation in sunshine, temperature, rain fall, and snow fa...

objective: the aim of this study was to better understand the triggers of suicide, particularly among the ‎ancient greek and persian soldiers and commanders.‎ method: ‎‘herodotus: the histories’ is a history of the rulers and soldiery who participated in the ‎greco-persian wars (492-449 bce). a new translation (2013) of this manuscript was studied. ‎accounts of suicide were collected and collat...

OBJECTIVE We investigated trends in suicidal behaviour as reported by Dutch general practices from 1983 to 2013. Also, we analysed the relationship with patient characteristics and with the financial crisis of 2008. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. METHOD We estimated age-adjusted and gender-specific trends in suicides (342) and attempted suicides (1614), as registered in 1983-2013...

OBJECTIVE Female sex, childhood trauma, and a family history of suicidal behavior are three well established risk factors for attempting suicide. However, interactions between these three factors in attempting suicide have been little studied. METHOD One thousand eight hundred and eighty-nine abstinent substance dependent patients were interviewed about their lifetime and family history of su...

background: suicide has constituted a critical public health problem for many decades. the number of completed suicide is traditionally high in iran. the objective of the present study was to describe the patterns of methods of suicide among registered deaths due to suicide in hamada, western iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, all completed suicide cases (n=146) were included from ma...

to identify the characteristics of completed suicide by burning in tehran. a retrospective analysis of data obtained from tehran's legal medicine organization and judiciary system over 5-years (from 2002 to 2006). during the 5 years, 374 decedents (64.2% female and 35.8% male) were diagnosed as suicide by self-burning, and the annual incidence rate was 0.9 per 100,000 general population-years. ...

1177 Prospective analyses of National Health Interview Survey and National Death Index data found an adjusted risk of suicide among male veterans twice that of nonveteran males (1). That study also examined data for 11 female veterans and 246 female nonveterans who completed suicide and found that women with past military service were more likely to complete suicide (adjusted hazard ratio= 3.62...