title: Implications of the sex ratio for suicide and homicide.
abstract: In a study of the 48 contiguous states in 1980, states with a higher male:female sex ratio, that is, a relatively higher proportion of men to women, had a higher male suicide rate even after controls for other social correlates of suicide rates.
authors.affiliation: Center for Study of Suicide, Blackwood, NJ 08012, USA.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lester
mesh_terms: D000367:Age Factors; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005260:Female; D006708:Homicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013405:Suicide / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology