%0 Journal Article
%T Serum cholesterol levels preceding to suicide death in Japanese workers: a nested case-control study
%J Acta neuropsychiatrica
%D 2019
%A Chen, Sanmei
%A Mizoue, Tetsuya
%A Hu, Huanhuan
%A Kuwahara, Keisuke
%A Honda, Toru
%A Yamamoto, Shuichiro
%A Nakagawa, Tohru
%A Miyamoto, Toshiaki
%A Okazaki, Hiroko
%A Shimizu, Makiko
%A Murakami, Taizo
%A Eguchi, Masafumi
%A Kochi, Takeshi
%A Yamamoto, Makoto
%A Ogasawara, Takayuki
%A Sasaki, Naoko
%A Uehara, Akihiko
%A Imai, Teppei
%A Nishihara, Akiko
%A Hori, Ai
%A Nagahama, Satsue
%A Tomita, Kentaro
%A Konishi, Maki
%A Kabe, Isamu
%A Dohi, Seitaro
%V ePub
%N ePub
%P 1-13
%X OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association between suicide death and serum cholesterol levels as measured at times close to suicide death. <br><br>METHODS: We conducted a nested case-control study of 41 cases of suicide deaths and 205 matched controls with serum total cholesterol (TC) levels till three years before suicide death in a large cohort of Japanese workers. <br><br>RESULTS: Individuals in the lowest vs. highest tertile/predefined category of TC in a Japanese working population had a three- to four-fold greater risk of suicide death. Each 10 mg/dL decrement of average TC was associated with an 18% increased chance of suicide death (95% confidence interval, 2-35%). Similar results were found for TC levels at each year. <br><br>CONCLUSION: These results suggest that a low serum TC level in recent past is associated with an increased risk of suicide death.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
%G en
%I Cambridge University Press
%@ 0924-2708
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/neu.2019.26