TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Nearly lethal resuscitated suicide attempters have no low serum levels of cholesterol and triglycerides
JO  - Psychological reports
A1  - Pompili, Maurizio
A1  - Innamorati, Marco
A1  - Lester, David
A1  - Girardi, Paolo
A1  - Tatarelli, Roberto
SP  - 785
EP  - 790
VL  - 106
IS  - 3
N2  - To verify the hypothesis that suicide attempts are associated with lower serum cholesterol and triglyceride levels of patients with mood disorders, 26 patients with mood disorders (bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder) were admitted after a medically serious suicide attempt to the emergency department and then hospitalized in the psychiatric unit of the Sant' Andrea Hospital (Rome, Italy). Controls were 87 patients who had not made a recent suicide attempt. Attempters and nonattempters did not differ in the levels of serum cholesterol or triglycerides. Indeed, attempters had nonsignificantly higher serum levels of cholesterol and lower serum levels of triglycerides. The use of biologic indicators such as levels of serum cholesterol and triglycerides in the prediction of suicide risk in mood disorders was not fully supported from this small sample.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0033-2941
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -