TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2019//
TI  - Does body mass index influences the method opted for suicide?
JO  - Indian journal of forensic medicine and toxicology
A1  - Pandey, R.K.
A1  - Samadder, S.K.
SP  - 138
EP  - 143
VL  - 13
IS  - 2
N2  - Background - In recent years many researches suggested that body mass index is inversely related to suicide. But only a limited literature explored the association of body mass index with method opted for suicide. The current research aims to find out the association between body mass index and method opted for suicide in Indian scenario. <br><br>METHOD - Case-control study was conducted in the Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Gandhi Medical College, Bhopal. 70 hanging cases, 43 poisoning cases were compared with 50 road traffic accident postmortem study samples brought for medicolegal autopsy. Height and weight measured, body mass index calculated and categorised. Data were analysed using R version 3.3.3. <br><br>CONCLUSION - The present study suggests death by hanging and by poisoning, the two most common methods of suicide in India, decreases with increase in BMI (p < 0.01). But, BMI cannot be used as a predictor of method opted for suicide, i.e., hanging or poisoning, in underweight, normal and overweight BMI categories (p > 0.05). © 2019, Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology. All rights reserved.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0973-9122
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5958/0973-9130.2019.00101.4
ID  - ref1
ER  -