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Researchers have identified several risk factors for suicide, including male gender, previous suicide attempts, low socioeconomic status, and psychiatric diagnoses. Cancer diagnosis might also increase risk. In an 8-year cohort study, these investigators determined psychiatric, general medical, and sociodemographic risk factors for suicide among all 7.1 million adults living in Sweden on January 1, 2001.
Death from suicide, sociodemographic variables, psychiatric diagnoses, and diagnoses of seven somatic disorders were ascertained from national registries, including outpatient and inpatient health data. Men had an almost threefold higher risk for suicide mortality (n=6213; 0.18%) than women (n=2508; 0.07%) after adjustment for other sociodem…