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Marital status and the risk of suicide
J C Smith1, J A Mercy, J M Conn
1Division of Injury Epidemiology and Control, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333.
American Journal of Public Health
|January 1, 1988
Abstract:
No recent United States study has previously calculated national suicide rates by marital status for specific age, race, and sex categories in order to better identify high-risk groups for suicide. We used national vital statistics and census data to calculate marital-status-specific rates. Results show that for each marital status group, by age and sex, married persons have the lowest suicide rates and young widowed males have exceptionally high rates.