Pusan National University researchers link suicide prevalence to geographical latitude
In this light, a research team led by Professor Yun Hak Kim from Pusan National University, South Korea, explored the role of sunlight exposure in the prevalence of suicide. Additionally, while the suicide prevalence in men (25.91) was much higher than in women (5.66), women were likely to have suicidal tendencies at a higher frequency. They also noted that while gun-control and gun-permissive countries had similar suicide prevalence values of 16.46 and 15.40, suicide by firearm was more common in the latter. ***ReferenceDOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajp.2023.103454Authors: Seongjun Ana1, Sungju Lima1, Hyun-Woo Kim2, Hyung-Sik Kim3, Dongjun Lee4, Eunjeong Son5, Tae Woo Kim6, Tae Sik Goh7, Kihun Kim8, Yun Hak Kim9,10,Affiliations:1School of Medicine, Pusan National University2Department of Neurology, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital3Department of Oral Biochemistry, Dental and Life Science Institute, School of Dentistry, Pusan National University4Department of Convergence Medicine, School of Medicine, Pusan National University5Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital6Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital7Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Pusan National University8Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Kosin University Gospel Hospital9Department of Biomedical Informatics, School of Medicine, Pusan National University10Department of Anatomy, School of Medicine, Pusan National UniversityAbout Pusan National UniversityPusan National University, located in Busan, South Korea, was founded in 1946, and is now the No. Website: https://www.pusan.ac.kr/eng/Main.doAbout Professor Yun Hak Kim from Pusan National UniversityDr. Yun Hak Kim is an Associate Professor at the Department of Anatomy and the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Pusan National University (PNU).
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