Serum cholesterol, triglyceride and suicide in depressed patients: Results of a controlled group comparison of depressed patients who committed violent suicide with non-suicidal depressives and lower backpain patients

Archives of Suicide Research

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 161-170

  Wolfersdorf, Manfred ^a   Michelsen, A ^a   Keller, Ferdinand ^a   Maier, Volker ^a   Fröscher, Walter ^a   Kaschka, Wolfgang P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Depression; Serum cholesterol; Suicide; Triglyceride

Indexed keywords

CHOLESTEROL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029736414     PISSN: 13811118     EISSN: 15436136     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13811119608258998     Document Type: Article

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