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ArticleBMC psychiatry2022

Comparing gender-specific suicide mortality rate trends in the United States and Lithuania, 1990-2019: putting one of the "deaths of despair" into perspective.

Shannon Lange, Jürgen Rehm, Alexander Tran, Courtney L Bagge, Domantas Jasilionis, Mark S Kaplan, Olga Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, Mindaugas Štelemėkas, Charlotte Probst

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Article in BMC psychiatry, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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  2. Suicide rates in the Slovak Republic in 2011-2020.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023
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Shannon LangeInstitute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1, Canada. shannon.lange@camh.ca.
Jürgen RehmInstitute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1, Canada.
Alexander TranInstitute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1, Canada.
Courtney L BaggeDepartment of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical School, 2800 Plymouth Road, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA.
Domantas JasilionisLaboratory of Demographic Data, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Konrad-Zuse-Str. 1, 18057, Rostock, Germany.
Mark S KaplanLuskin School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles, 337 Charles E Young Drive East, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA.
Olga Meščeriakova-VeliulienėDepartment of Health Management, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės 18, 47181, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Mindaugas ŠtelemėkasHealth Research Institute, Faculty of Public Health, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Tilžės 18, 47181, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Charlotte ProbstInstitute for Mental Health Policy Research, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH), 33 Ursula Franklin Street, Toronto, ON, M5S 2S1, Canada.

Funding

Supplement to a microsimulation of alcohol control interventions to advance health equity and reverse the current decrease in life expectancy in the USR01AA028009 · NIAAA · CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH · PI PROBST, CHARLOTTE · 2020 to 2024
$2.4M
Evaluation of the impact of alcohol control policies on morbidity and mortality in Lithuania and other Baltic statesR01AA028224 · NIAAA · CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH · PI REHM, JUERGEN T, ŠTELEMĖKAS, MINDAUGAS · 2020 to 2024
$2.2M
NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA028009NIAAA NIH HHS R01 AA028224
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

introductionThe increase in the suicide mortality rate among middle-aged adults in the United States (US) has been well documented. Aside from a few studies from the United Kingdom, it is unclear whether the suicide mortality rate trend in the US is also occurring in other developed countries. Accordingly, we aimed to compare the suicide mortality rate trends over the past 30 years in the US to a country in the European Union-Lithuania.

methodsJoinpoint regression analyses were performed to identify secular trends in the gender-specific age-standardized suicide mortality rate among individuals 15 + years of age, as well as middle-aged adults (45-54 years of age), and suicide mortality rate ratio for men-to-women.

resultsAge-standardized suicide mortality rates among middle-aged adults in the US increased annually, on average, by 0.89% (95% CI: 0.66%, 1.12%) among men and 1.21% (95% CI: 0.75%, 1.66%) among women between 1990 and 2019. In contrast to the US, there was an overall downward trend in the suicide mortality rates among middle-aged adults in Lithuania across the study period. The average annual percent change in the suicide mortality rate ratio for men-to-women were not statistically significant for either country.

conclusionThe suicide mortality rate trend in the US does not appear to be an indicator of an upcoming global trend, but rather should be regarded as a cautionary example of what other countries should strive to avoid.

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SuicideAdolescentAdultEuropean UnionFemaleHumansLithuaniaMaleMiddle AgedRegression AnalysisUnited KingdomUnited StatesGenderMortality rateSuicideTrend

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