Who Is at Increased Risk for Death from Suicide: French HIV Cohort Data

In a nested case-control study in a French HIV cohort, death by suicide was associated with not having children, substance abuse, and psychiatric problems but not with any demographic or HIV-related factors.

Suicide has reemerged as a major public health problem with the CDC recently reporting that suicide rates increased from 1999 to 2016 in nearly every state (https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/suicide/index.html). HIV-infected persons are at even higher risk for suicide than the general population. In France in 2010, suicide was the 6th most common cause of death in HIV+ persons and the second most common death among those with good HIV control (CD4 >500 and undetectable HIV levels). This nested case-control study was undertaken to evaluate demographic, socioeconomic, psychiatric, and clinical factors associated with death by suicide within the French Multicenter AIDS cohort from January 2000 through July 2013. The 2013 cohort included 34,000 pa…

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Keith Henry, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardViiV Advisory Board

Editorial BoardsJAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Keith Henry, MD

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Consultant/Advisory BoardViiV Advisory Board

Editorial BoardsJAIDS: Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Who Is at Increased Risk for Death from Suicide: French HIV Cohort Data

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