Gender-specific association between iron status and the history of attempted suicide: Implications for gender paradox of suicide behaviors

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 31, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 1429-1435

  Li, Yanfeng ^a   Dai, Qi ^b   Torres, Myriam E ^a   Zhang, Jian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT INGRAM CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Attempted suicide; Gender; Iron deficiency; NHANES; Nutrition; Suicide

Indexed keywords

FERRITIN; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; PROTOPORPHYRIN; TRANSFERRIN;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; FERRITIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHESIS; IMPULSIVENESS; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; IRON DEFICIENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUTRITION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FERRITINS; HUMANS; IRON; MALE; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; ODDS RATIO; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 34548132799     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2007.06.015     Document Type: Article

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