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BMC Psychiatry BioMed Central Research article Open Access Psychiatric diagnoses in 3275 suicides: a meta-analysis Geneviève Arsenault-Lapierre, Caroline Kim and Gustavo Turecki* Address: McGill Group for Suicide Studies, Douglas Hospital Research Centre, Department of psychiatry, McGill University, Montreal, Canada Email: Geneviève Arsenault-Lapierre - genevieve.arsenault-lapierre@elf.mcgill.ca; Caroline Kim - caroline.kim@elf.mcgill.ca; Gustavo Turecki* - gustavo.turecki@mcgill.ca * Corresponding author Published: 04 November 2004 Received: 13 April 2004 Accepted: 04 November 2004 BMC Psychiatry 2004, 4:37 doi:10.1186/1471-244X-4-37 This article is available from: /1471-244X/4/37 © 2004 Arsenault-Lapierre 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: It is well known that most suicide cases meet criteria for a psychiatric disorder. However, rates of specific disorders vary considerably between studies and little information is known about gender and geographic differences. This study provides overall rates of total and specific psychiatric disorders in suicide completers and presents evidence supporting gender and geographic differences in their relative proportion. Methods: We carried out a review of studies in which p