Historical look at US army suicides

What The Study Did:

Nearly 200 years of military records from 1819 to 2017 were used to examine suicide rates among active-duty personnel in the U.S. Army in this observational study.

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Jeffrey Allen Smith, Ph.D.,of the University of Hawaii in Hilo, is the corresponding author.

(doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2019.17448)

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