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Suicide Trends Among Youths Aged 10 to 19 Years in the United States, 1996-2005
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To the Editor: Following a decade of steady decline, the suicide rate among US youth younger than 20 years increased by 18% from 2003 to 2004, the largest single-year change in the pediatric suicide rate over the past 15 years.1 Federal health officials have urged caution in interpreting this 1-year apparent spike in youth suicide until data from additional years are available for comparison.1 We examined available national fatal injury data to assess whether the increase in suicide rates among US youth persisted from 2004 to 2005, the latest year for which data are available.
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Data on deaths for which suicide (coded E950-E959 for International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision [ICD-9] [1996-1998] and X60-X84, Y87.0, and U03 for ICD-10 [1999-2005]) was listed as the underlying cause of death among 10- to-19-year-olds were obtained from the National Vital Statistics Systems using WISQARS (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System; National Center . . . [Full Text of this Article]
Jeffrey A. Bridge, PhD
jeff.bridge@nationwidechildrens.org
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio
Joel B. Greenhouse, PhD
Department of Statistics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Arielle H. Weldon, MS;
John V. Campo, MD;
Kelly J. Kelleher, MD, MPH
The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio
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