Adolescents accounted for larger share of suicides in over quarter of U.S. states in 2020: study


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  • Wednesday, 27 Apr 2022

LOS ANGELES, April 26 (Xinhua) -- Adolescents accounted for a larger share of suicides in more than a quarter of U.S. states in 2020, U.S. News and World Report reported on Monday citing a new study.

Researchers examined suicide data across 14 states in the United States for 2015 to 2020, and found the proportion of overall suicides that occurred among young people aged 10 to 19 increased by 10 percent in 2020 compared with the average share over the pre-pandemic period of 2015 through 2019, the news outlet reported, based on the study published in JAMA Pediatrics, a peer-reviewed medical journal.

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