Open AccessThe relationship between obesity and elderly suicide rates: a cross-national study
Author(s) -
Ajit Shah
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
journal of injury and violence research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2008-4072
pISSN - 2008-2053
DOI - 10.5249/jivr.v2i2.63
Subject(s) - obesity , confounding , ecological study , medicine , poison control , occupational safety and health , cross sectional study , suicide prevention , injury prevention , environmental health , millennium cohort study (united states) , human factors and ergonomics , cohort , demography , cohort study , gerontology , population , pathology , sociology
An inverse relationship between obesity and suicide has been observed in younger adults, but this has not been examined in the elderly.
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