Female attempted suicide patients with low HDL levels are at higher risk of suicide re-attempt within the subsequent year: A clinical cohort study

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 225, Issue 1-2, 2015, Pages 202-207

  Emet, Mucahit ^a   Yucel, Atakan ^a   Ozcan, Halil ^a   Akgol Gur, Sultan Tuna ^b   Saritemur, Murat ^a   Bulut, Nevzat ^a   Gumusdere, Musa ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Erzurum Region Education and Research Hospital   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Cholesterol; HDL; Lipid; Suicide attempt; Suicide re attempt; Triglyceride; Women

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN CHOLESTEROL; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; ORGANOPHOSPHATE; PARACETAMOL; QUETIAPINE; RISPERIDONE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CHOLESTEROL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOANALYZER; BLOOD SAMPLING; BODY MASS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENDER; HUMAN; LIPID BLOOD LEVEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; SUICIDE ATTEMPT; TIME; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; AGED; BLOOD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; RECURRENT DISEASE; REFERENCE VALUE; RISK;

ADULT; AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHOLESTEROL; CHOLESTEROL, HDL; CHOLESTEROL, LDL; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; RECURRENCE; REFERENCE VALUES; RISK; SUICIDE, ATTEMPTED; TRIGLYCERIDES;

EID: 84916613117     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2014.11.026     Document Type: Article

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