Suicide attempt and n-3 fatty acid levels in red blood cells: A case control study in China

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 490-496

  Huan, Mingming ^a   Hamazaki, Kei ^a   Sun, Yueji ^c   Itomura, Miho ^a   Liu, Hongyan ^d   Kang, Wei ^e   Watanabe, Shiro ^a   Terasawa, Katsutoshi ^b   Hamazaki, Tomohito ^a  

^a Inst Nat Med   (Japan)

^b TOYAMA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c DALIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d Dalian Friendship Hospital   (China)

^e Dalian City   (China)

Author keywords

Docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; fatty acid composition; fish intake; phospholipids; suicide attempt

Indexed keywords

FATTY ACID; PHOSPHOLIPID;

ACCIDENT; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CHILD; CHINA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERYTHROCYTE; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; LIPID COMPOSITION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SUICIDE ATTEMPT;

ADULT; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHINA; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DOCOSAHEXAENOIC ACIDS; EICOSAPENTAENOIC ACID; ERYTHROCYTES; FATTY ACIDS; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3; FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-6; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FEMALE; FISHES; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ODDS RATIO; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 4644219808     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2004.06.028     Document Type: Article

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