Low Cholesterol, Delinquency, and Suicidality
| Autor: | Luca Mascitelli, Mark R. Goldstein, Francesca Pezzetta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study business.industry Cholesterol Aggression Population medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health chemistry.chemical_compound chemistry Private practice Conduct disorder Juvenile delinquency Medicine Risk factor Parasuicide medicine.symptom Letters to the Editor business Psychiatry education |
| Zdroj: | The Primary Care Companion to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry. 10:413-414 |
| ISSN: | 1523-5998 |
| Popis: | Sir: It is well known that incarcerated adolescents are at high risk of suicide.1 We suggest that lower than normal cholesterol levels might be a biological marker of both a violent behavior leading to subsequent arrest and suicidality. Mounting evidence suggests a relation between low cholesterol and violence, aggression, and hostility.2,3 In particular, a statistically significant association has been shown between serum total cholesterol concentration below the 25th percentile ( |
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