Trends in suicide in a Lithuanian urban population over the period 1984–2003 英文参考文献.docVIP

BMC Public Health BioMedCentral Research article Open Access Trends in suicide in a Lithuanian urban population over the period 1984–2003 Abdonas Tamosiunas*, Regina Reklaitiene, Dalia Virviciute and Diana Sopagiene Address: Department of Population Studies, Institute of Cardiology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania Email: Abdonas Tamosiunas* - atamos@kmu.lt; Regina Reklaitiene - regina@kmu.lt; Dalia Virviciute - dalivirv@itc.kmu.lt; Diana Sopagiene - diana@kmu.lt * Corresponding author Published: 13 July 2006 Received: 17 March 2006 Accepted: 13 July 2006 BMC Public Health 2006, 6:184 doi:10.1186/1471-2458-6-184 This article is available from: /1471-2458/6/184 ? 2006 Tamosiunas et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: Throughout the last decade of the twentieth century, Lithuania had the highest suicide rates in Europe among both men and women aged 25–64 years. The rates increased from 1986 until 1995, but later there was a slight decrease. This paper describes the trends in suicide deaths in urban population in Lithuania by gender, dates and suicide method over the period 1984– 2003. Methods: Data from the regional mortality register were used to analyze suicide deaths among all men and women aged 25–64 years in Kaunas city, Lithuania over the period 1984–2003. Age- standardized death rates per 100,000 persons (using European standard population) were calculated by gender, suicide method and dates. A joinpoint regression method was used to estimate annual percentage changes (EPACs) and to detect points where the trends changed significantly. Results: The frequency of death by suicide among males was 48% higher