Lithium in drinking water and suicide mortality

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 198, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 346-350

  Kapusta, Nestor D ^a   Mossaheb, Nilufar ^a   Etzersdorfer, Elmar ^b   Hlavin, Gerald ^a   Thau, Kenneth ^a   Willeit, Matthäus ^a   Praschak Rieder, Nicole ^a   Sonneck, Gernot ^c   Leithner Dziubas, Katharina ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b Furtbach Hospital for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy   (Germany)

^c LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; LITHIUM;

ARTICLE; AUSTRIA; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE; MORTALITY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RELIGION; SOCIOECONOMICS; SUICIDE;

ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; AUSTRIA; CATHOLICISM; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LITHIUM; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF-INJURIOUS BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUICIDE; WATER SUPPLY;

EID: 79955525604     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: 14721465     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.bp.110.091041     Document Type: Article

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