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Jeffrey J. Sacks, MD, MPH; James A. Mercy, PhD; George W. Ryan, PhD; R. Gibson Parrish, MD
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Atlanta, Ga

JAMA. 1994;272(11):847-848.

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To the Editor.

—The presence of one or more guns in the home has been associated with a 1.6-fold (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.2 to 2.2) increased risk of homicide¹ and a 3.2-fold (95% CI, 2.4 to 4.4) increased risk of suicide.² We investigated how many deaths in the United States might be attributable to guns in the home for the period 1988 through 1990.

Using medical examiner, vital statistics, and survey³ data, we estimated that 46.7% (31092) of the 66578 homicides and 66.4% (60 786) of the 91 545 suicides during these 3 years occurred in the home and that 43.2% of homes had guns (95% CI, 41.4% to 45.0%).

We used an attributable risk approach and the point estimates and lower and higher values of the CIs for the prevalence of guns in the home³ and the unadjusted gun-related risks of homicide and suicide . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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