Citation

Sher L. Eur. Arch. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2019; ePub(ePub): ePub.

Affiliation

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA. Leo.Sher@mssm.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2019, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group)

DOI

10.1007/s00406-019-01041-w

PMID

31286193

Abstract

Suicide in men is a critical public health issue and has been described as a “silent epidemic”. Worldwide, men commit suicides much more frequently than women. Male suicide rates are larger than female rates at all ages. In 2014, in the US, the age-adjusted suicide rate for males (20.7 per 100,000) was 3.57 times that for females (5.8 per 100,000). In 2012, the age-adjusted suicide rates for males in Germany, UK, Hungary, and Lithuania were 3.54, 3.77, 4.38, and 6.07 times higher than for females, respectively.

Suicide rates in men in the US significantly increased from 1999 to 2014 at all ages. Suicide rates in men aged 45–64 increased by 43% (from 20.8 per 100,000 to 29.7 per 100,000). Also, suicide rates in males aged 10–14 increased by 37% (from 1.9 per 100,000 to 2.6 per 100,000).

Apparently, many psychosocial and neurobiological factors contribute to suicidal behavior in men. It has been proposed that lack of help-seeking behavior, work-related ...

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