@article{ref1,
title="Serum lipid levels and suicide attempts",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica",
year="2003",
author="Lee, Heon-Jeong and Kim, Yong-Ku",
volume="108",
number="3",
pages="215-221",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To determine whether a correlation exists between lower serum lipid concentrations and increased suicide risk. METHOD: Serum lipid profiles were pair-matched for 60 patients who had recently experienced failed attempts at suicide and equal numbers of non-suicidal psychiatric patients, and normal controls. Suicide attempt severity was scored using Weisman and Worden's risk-rescue rating scale. RESULTS: (a). Total serum cholesterol and low density lipoprotein levels were found to be lower in the parasuicidal population at statistically significant levels (P < 0.01 and <0.05, respectively); (b). triglyceride concentrations were lower in suicide attempters with major depression compared with non-suicidal depressed patients; and (c). risk-rescue rating scores were negatively correlated with total serum cholesterol levels (r = -0.347, P = 0.007). CONCLUSION: Low lipid metabolism may be a potential biological marker in the assessment of suicide risk. Further investigations are necessary to elucidate the biological mechanisms of these findings.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-690X",
doi="10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00115.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00115.x"
}