Growing alcohol use preceding death by suicide among women compared with men: age-specific temporal trends, 2003-18.

ABSTRACT:

Background and aims

In 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.

Design

Using 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)-s

SUBMITTER: Lange S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9357152 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature