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      Completed suicide after a suicide attempt: a 37-year follow-up study.

      The American Journal of Psychiatry
      Adolescent, Adult, Cause of Death, Cohort Studies, Female, Finland, epidemiology, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Poisoning, mortality, Recurrence, Risk, Suicide, statistics & numerical data, Suicide, Attempted

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          Attempted suicide is the strongest known predictor of completed suicide. However, suicide risk declines over time after an attempt, and it is unclear how long the risk persists. Risk estimates are almost exclusively based on studies of less than 10 years of follow-up. The authors followed a cohort of 100 consecutive self-poisoned patients in Helsinki in 1963, for whom forensically classified causes of death during the following 37 years were investigated. They found that suicides continued to accumulate almost four decades after the index suicide attempt. A history of a suicide attempt by self-poisoning indicates suicide risk over the entire adult lifetime.

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