Low risk of male suicide and lithium in drinking water

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 319-326

  Ishii, Nobuyoshi ^a   Terao, Takeshi ^a   Araki, Yasuo ^a   Kohno, Kentaro ^a   Mizokami, Yoshinori ^a   Shiotsuki, Ippei ^a   Hatano, Koji ^a   Makino, Mayu ^a   Kodama, Kensuke ^a   Iwata, Noboru ^b  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSHIMA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; LITHIUM;

AGE; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; FISHERMAN; FOREST WORKER; HOUSEHOLD; HUMAN; INCOME; JAPAN; MALE; MARRIAGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SUICIDE; TEMPERATURE; UNEMPLOYMENT; WEIGHTED LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION ANALYSIS; ADULT; CHEMISTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; RISK; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADULT; DRINKING WATER; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LITHIUM; MALE; RISK; SEX FACTORS; SUICIDE;

EID: 84932129276     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: 15552101     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.14m09218     Document Type: Article

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