Tag: Middle-aged women

Middle-aged women drive rise in U.S. suicides: study

Oct 22, 2008

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in Demography, Gender and Sex, Sociology, Trends: Economic, Trends: Social

Reuters: Middle-aged women drive rise in U.S. suicides: study WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. suicide rates appear to be on the rise, driven mostly by middle-aged white women, researchers reported on Tuesday. They found a disturbing increase in suicides between 1999 and 2005 and said the pattern had changed in an unmistakable way — although the…