BACKGROUND The suicide rate in Greenland, especially among men, is among the highest in the world. Attempted suicide rates may be high also. However, the rates of attempted suicide are unknown. OBJECTIVE We aimed to estimate the age- and gender-specific incidence of attempted suicide using medicine in Nuuk in 2008-2009. DESIGN An observational retrospective study of consecutive medical reco...

Seventy five cases of attempted suicide were studied over a period of one and half years (from January 1996 to June 1997). The findings revealed that 85.4% cases were in the age group 15-54 years. Females (53.4%) and unmarried (52%) attempted suicide more often. House wives (32%) and students (28%) were the two commonest occupational categories involved. Organophosphorus compounds were consumed...

The problem of attempted suicide is attracting much attention because of the great increase in the incidence of these cases in recent years. Anyone who is clinically involved can have no doubt about the increase although, rather surprisingly, the Ministry of Health have no reliable statistics (Ministry of Health, 1967, personal communication). Those statistics which are available have been coll...

A 43-year-old African-American man with a history of hypertension, depression, and chronic alcohol abuse presented to the emergency service of an outside hospital complaining of chest pain. Laboratory testing indicated hepatocellular injury with aspartate aminotransferase (AST) of 14000 U/L (reference interval 5– 41 U/L) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) of 6400 U/L (reference interval 8 – 45 ...

background research shows that parents have an immense influence over their children’s behavior during adolescence. adolescents who grow up with parents who are addicted to drugs and alcohol are more likely to turn to self-destructive behaviors such as suicide attempts. because addiction in iran is a primarily masculine phenomenon and in traditional iranian culture, the father is responsible fo...

OBJECTIVE To characterize subgroups of subjects with schizophrenia from the Ziprasidone Observational Study of Cardiac Outcomes (ZODIAC) trial who either completed or attempted suicide and those who did not. METHOD The ZODIAC, conducted between February 2002 and March 2007, was an open-label, randomized, large simple trial of patients with schizophrenia (N = 18,154) followed up for 1 year by ...

OBJECTIVE To determine if there is a relation to low serum cholesterol, lipoprotein, serotonin or tryptophan levels in patients with depression who have recently attempted suicide. DESIGN Biochemical and behavioural study. SETTING Inpatient and outpatient treatment at the Instituto Mexicano de Psiquiatría. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-three patients with a diagnosis of major depressive episode. Ei...

OBJECTIVE Childhood traumatic experiences are widely known risk factors in the development of various psychiatric disorders and unfavorable behavior patterns, including suicide attempts. Moreover, in the course of some psychiatric disorders, suicide attempts are more frequent in patients with childhood traumatic experiences. This study explores the influence of childhood traumatic experiences o...