ArticleAddiction (Abingdon, England)2022
Growing alcohol use preceding death by suicide among women compared with men: age-specific temporal trends, 2003-18.
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- Menopause and suicide: A systematic review.Women's health (London, England)Pooled it
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- Alcohol and violent deaths in the United States, 2015-2022.Injury epidemiology · 2026Article
- Women and alcohol: A call to action.Alcohol, clinical & experimental research · 2026Article
- Self-harm in women in midlife: rates, precipitating problems and outcomes following hospital presentations in the multicentre study of self-harm in England.The British journal of psychiatry : the journal of mental science · 2025Article
- Suicide Risk in Alcohol Use Disorders: Literature Review and Study Protocol with Preliminary Data for a Study in Treatment-Seeking Inpatients.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
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- Relationship Between Alcohol Use and Firearm-Involved Suicide: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System, 2003-2020.American journal of preventive medicine · 2024Article
- Gender Differences in Risks of Suicide and Suicidal Behaviors in the USA: A Narrative Review.Current psychiatry reports · 2023Review
- Commentary on Lange et al.: Acute alcohol use before suicide-is it contributing to an increase in suicide rates in the United States?Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2022Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND AND
aimsIn the United States, until 2018 both the prevalence of heavy alcohol use and the suicide mortality rate increased among men and women; however, women had experienced a notably higher increase in both. As heavy alcohol use may have contributed to the observed sex disparity in the suicide mortality rate increase, the aim of the current study was to estimate the temporal trend of the sex- and age-group-specific proportion of suicides that were alcohol-involved in the United States.
designUsing restricted-access data from the National Violent Death Reporting System, we performed joinpoint regression analyses to investigate temporal trends in the sex- and age-group (young adults = 18-34 years; middle-aged adults = 35-64 years; and older adults = 65+ years)-specific proportion of suicides that were alcohol-involved.
settingUnited States.
participantsA total of 115 202 suicide decedents 18+ years of age from 2003 to 2018. MEASUREMENTS: The sex- and age-group-specific proportion of suicides that were alcohol-involved, among all suicide decedent, for which the decedent had a blood alcohol concentration (BAC) (a) ≥ 0.04 g/dl and (b) ≥ 0.08 g/dl.
findingsFor 2003-18, the proportion of suicides that were alcohol-involved wherein the decedent had a BAC ≥ 0.08 g/day significantly increased on average annually for women of all age groups [young women: 2.80%, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.86%, 3.75%; middle-aged women: 2.20%, 95% CI = 1.20%, 3.21%; older women: 10.48%, 95% CI = 1.17%, 20.65%], while only middle-aged men experienced a significant average annual percentage increase (0.81%, 95% CI = 0.003%, 1.62%).
conclusionIn the United States between 2003 and 2018, alcohol use preceding death by suicide increased among women compared with men.
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