Invited commentary: Body mass index and suicide-untangling an unlikely association

American Journal of Epidemiology

Volumn 172, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 900-904

  Mukamal, Kenneth J ^a   Miller, Matthew ^b  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

body mass index; confounding factors (epidemiology); depression; social class; suicide, attempted

Indexed keywords

BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FATALITY; HANGING; HUMAN; IMPULSIVENESS; INTOXICATION; MENTAL HEALTH; MOOD; NOTE; OBESITY; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CLASS; SUICIDAL IDEATION; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; WEIGHT REDUCTION; COMPLICATION; HOSPITALIZATION; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BODY MASS INDEX; DEPRESSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED;

EID: 77958091051     PISSN: 00029262     EISSN: 14766256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwq278     Document Type: Note

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