Birthday blues: The association of birthday with self‐inflicted death in the elderly
- 23 August 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
- Vol. 54 (2) , 146-149
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0447.1976.tb00106.x
Abstract
An excess of deaths was observed in the 30 days before and after a birthday for a sample of self‐inflicted deaths aged 75 and over.Keywords
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