Annals of epidemiology
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Annals of epidemiology · Feb 2015
Suicide risk among 1.3 million veterans who were on active duty during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
We conducted a retrospective cohort mortality study to determine the postservice suicide risk of recent wartime veterans comparing them with the US general population as well as comparing deployed veterans to nondeployed veterans. ⋯ Veterans exhibit significantly higher suicide risk compared with the US general population. However, deployment to the Iraq or Afghanistan war, by itself, was not associated with the excess suicide risk.