Elevated Suicide Rates at High Altitude: Sociodemographic and Health Issues May Be to Blame
Elevated Suicide Rates at High Altitude: Sociodemographic and Health Issues May Be to Blame
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1943-278x.2011.00054.x
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Honigman, Benjamin
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作者：
Betz, Marian E.;Valley, Morgan A.;Honigman, Benjamin
高海拔地区的自杀率较高；一些人推测缺氧是原因。我们检查了国家暴力死亡报告系统 2006 年在 15 个州记录的 8,871 起自杀事件，并通过 FIPS 代码匹配从国家海拔数据集确定了受害者家乡县的海拔高度。我们按海拔高度（低
Suicide rates are higher at high altitudes; some hypothesize that hypoxia is the cause. We examined 8,871 suicides recorded in 2006 in 15 states by the National Violent Death Reporting System, with the victim's home county altitude determined from the National Elevation Dataset through FIPS code matching. We grouped cases by altitude (low