Citation

Riggs JE, McGraw RL, Keefover RW. Compr. Psychiatry 1996; 37(3): 222-225.

Affiliation

Department of Neurology, West Virginia University School of Medicine, Morgantown, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1996, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

8732590

Abstract

Age-specific suicide rates in the United States between 1951 and 1988 were shown in cohort, cross-sectional, and age group formats. Despite considerable variation among women and younger and older men, suicide rates among 40- to 44-year-old men have remained stable. Since suicide is strongly influenced by psychosocial stressors, the constant suicide rates in middle-aged men suggest a consistency in the stress experienced by this population subgroup.

Language: en