March 2, 2015

Suicides have soared in past 15 years

Nature World News - Researchers revealed that in about the last 15 years, suicide rates among US adults have risen by 40 percent. This astonishing number, pertaining to those between 40 and 64 years old in the United States, could possibly be due to the economic downturn of 2007-2009, researchers say....

"Relative to other age groups, a larger and increasing proportion of middle-aged suicides have circumstances associated with job, financial, or legal distress and are completed using suffocation," the researchers said in a press release.

They found that external economic factors - for example, a job or financial problem, legal problem, or difficulty in school - were present in 37.5 percent of all completed suicides in 2010, a jump from 32.9 percent in 2005.


The results were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Is 'jump' the right verb for describing an increase in suicides? Just curious...