@article{ref1,
title="Suicide and marital status in the United States, 1991-1996: is widowhood a risk factor?",
journal="American journal of public health",
year="2002",
author="Luoma, Jason B. and Pearson, Jane L.",
volume="92",
number="9",
pages="1518-1522",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: This study examined whether marital status is associated with suicide rates among various age, sex, and racial groups, in particular with widowhood among young adults of both sexes. METHODS: US national suicide mortality data were compiled for the years 1991-1996, and suicide rates were broken down by race, 5-year age groups, sex, and marital status. RESULTS: Data on suicide rates indicated an approximately 17-fold increase among young widowed White men (aged 20-34 years), a 9-fold increase among young widowed African American men, and lesser increases among young widowed White women compared with their married counterparts. CONCLUSIONS: National data suggest that as many as 1 in 400 White and African American widowed men aged 20-35 years will die by suicide in any given year (compared with 1 in 9000 married men in the general population).<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0090-0036",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}