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16946365

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-9-1
pubmed:abstractText
Although the high rate of suicide in elderly people is conventionally explained as being due to greater intent to die, we have noted elderly Sri Lankans dying after relatively mild poisoning. Using data from cases of yellow oleander poisoning, we investigated the effect of age on outcome in 1697 patients, controlling for gender and amount ingested. In fully adjusted models, people over 64 years old were 13.8 (95% CI 3.6-53.0) times more likely to die than those less than 25 years old. The high number of suicides in elderly people globally is likely to be due, in part, to the difficulty they face in surviving the effects of both the poisoning and its treatment.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0007-1250
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
189
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
278-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-9-16
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Physical vulnerability and fatal self-harm in the elderly.
pubmed:affiliation
South Asian Clinical Toxicology REsearch Collaboration, Centre for Tropical Medicine, Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford, UK. eddlestonm@eureka.lk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Multicenter Study