ArticlePsychiatry investigation2014
High altitude remains associated with elevated suicide rates after adjusting for socioeconomic status: a study from South Korea.
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- Cerebral bioenergetic differences measured by phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy between bipolar disorder and healthy subjects living in two different regions suggesting possible effects of altitude.Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences · 2019Article
- Creatine for the Treatment of Depression.Biomolecules · 2019Review
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- Injury-Related Deaths according to Environmental, Demographic, and Lifestyle Factors.Journal of environmental and public health · 2019Article
- An Ecological Study on the Spatially Varying Relationship between County-Level Suicide Rates and Altitude in the United States.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2018Article
- Modeling the effects of atmospheric pressure on suicide rates in the USA using geographically weighted regression.PloS one · 2018Article
- The Sardinian Puzzle: Concentration of Major Psychoses and Suicide in the Same Sub-Regions Across One Century.Clinical practice and epidemiology in mental health : CP & EMH · 2017Article
- Altitude and risk of depression and anxiety: findings from the intern health study.International review of psychiatry (Abingdon, England)Article
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Abstract
There have been several studies supporting a possible relationship between high suicide rate and high altitude. However socioeconomic status may confound this association because low socioeconomic status, which is known to be related to a high suicide rate, is also associated with living at high altitude. This study aims to explore whether the relationship between high altitude and high suicide rate remains after adjusting for socioeconomic status in South Korea. We collected demographic data of completed suicides, the mean altitude of the district where each suicide took place, and the mean income of each district. We analyzed the data using regression analysis before and after adjustment for mean income. We found that there is a positive correlation between altitude and suicide rate, even after adjustment for mean income. Thus, altitude appears to be an independent risk factor for suicide.
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