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01-03-2020 | Suicide | Letter to the Editor

Suicide in men: an underappreciated public health challenge

Author: Leo Sher

Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience | Issue 2/2020

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Suicide in men is a critical public health issue and has been described as a “silent epidemic”. Worldwide, men commit suicides much more frequently than women [1]. Male suicide rates are larger than female rates at all ages. In 2014, in the US, the age-adjusted suicide rate for males (20.7 per 100,000) was 3.57 times that for females (5.8 per 100,000) [2]. In 2012, the age-adjusted suicide rates for males in Germany, UK, Hungary, and Lithuania were 3.54, 3.77, 4.38, and 6.07 times higher than for females, respectively [1]. …

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Title: Suicide in men: an underappreciated public health challenge
Author: Leo Sher
Publication date: 01-03-2020
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keywords: Suicide
Public Health
Suicide
Testosterone
Published in: European Archives of Psychiatry and Clinical Neuroscience / Issue 2/2020
Print ISSN: 0940-1334
Electronic ISSN: 1433-8491
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00406-019-01041-w

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