Suicide risk greater for people living at higher elevations

Thursday, January 13, 2011 - 12:32 in Health & Medicine

Twenty years of mortality data from counties across the United States led to the striking discovery that living at higher altitudes may be a risk factor for suicide, according to a provocative study published online ahead of print in High Altitude Medicine & Biology.

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