TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2006//
TI  - War and suicidal deaths by explosives in Southwestern Croatia
JO  - Archives of medical research
A1  - Bosnar, Alan
A1  - Stemberga, Valter
A1  - Coklo, Miran
A1  - Grgurevic, Emina
A1  - Zamolo, Gordana
A1  - Cucic, Tamara
A1  - Di Nunno, Nunzio
SP  - 392
EP  - 394
VL  - 37
IS  - 3
N2  - A total of 853 suicides, from which 29 were committed by explosives, were recorded in the examined region during three distinctly specific intervals-peace time (1986-1990), wartime (1991-1995), and the postwar time (1996-2000). Suicides caused by explosives, without a terrorist background, from 1986-2000 were reviewed. Out of 29 suicides by explosives committed in the examined period, the age and sex of suicide victims and alcohol intoxication at the time of suicide were analyzed. In the prewar period no suicides by explosives were recorded, in distinction from wartime and the postwar period when 20 and 9 such suicides were recorded, respectively. Alcohol testing was performed in 76% of the cases, showing the highest alcohol concentration in suicides' blood in wartime with an average value of 1.58 g/kg of absolute alcohol. As to the suicides' sex, 93% of the victims were male and 7% female. The paper emphasizes the drastically increased number of suicides commited by explosives in wartime.
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SN  - 0188-4409
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.arcmed.2005.06.007
ID  - ref1
ER  -