Serum lipid levels and suicide attempts
- Authors
- Lee, HJ; Kim, YK
- Issue Date
- Sep-2003
- Publisher
- BLACKWELL MUNKSGAARD
- Keywords
- cholesterol; depression; suicide; lipid; parasuicide; personality disorder
- Citation
- ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA, v.108, no.3, pp 215 - 221
- Pages
- 7
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- ACTA PSYCHIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
- Volume
- 108
- Number
- 3
- Start Page
- 215
- End Page
- 221
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2020.sw.kumedicine/21109
- DOI
- 10.1034/j.1600-0447.2003.00115.x
- ISSN
- 0001-690X
1600-0447
- Abstract
- Objective: To determine whether a correlation exists between lower serum lipid concentrations and increased suicide risk. Method: Serum lipid profiles were pair-matched for 60 patients who had recently experienced failed attempts at suicide and equal numbers of non-suicidal psychiatric patients, and normal controls. Suicide attempt severity was scored using Weisman and Worden's risk-rescue rating scale. Results: (a) Total serum cholesterol and low density lipoprotein levels were found to be lower in the parasuicidal population at statistically significant levels (P < 0.01 and <0.05, respectively); (b) triglyceride concentrations were lower in suicide attempters with major depression compared with non-suicidal depressed patients; and (c) risk-rescue rating scores were negatively correlated with total serum cholesterol levels (r = -0.347, P = 0.007). Conclusion: Low lipid metabolism may be a potential biological marker in the assessment of suicide risk. Further investigations are necessary to elucidate the biological mechanisms of these findings.
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