The hypothesis of an impact of ozone on the occurrence of completed and attempted suicides

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 338-341

  Biermann, Teresa ^a   Stilianakis, Nikolaos ^b,c   Bleich, Stefan ^a   Thürauf, Norbert ^a   Kornhuber, Johannes ^a   Reulbach, Udo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OZONE; SEROTONIN;

AIR POLLUTION; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FATIGUE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOLOGY; SUICIDE; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WEATHER;

AIR POLLUTANTS; AIR POLLUTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OZONE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SUICIDE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 59249106085     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2008.09.042     Document Type: Article

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