TY - JOUR T1 - Divorce and suicide risk JF - Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health JO - J Epidemiol Community Health SP - 993 LP - 993 DO - 10.1136/jech.57.12.993 VL - 57 IS - 12 AU - A J Kposowa Y1 - 2003/12/01 UR - http://jech.bmj.com/content/57/12/993.abstract N2 - There is accumulating evidence that divorced and separated people have much higher suicide rates than their married counterparts. In a previous paper published in this journal, it was observed that divorced and separated men were nearly 2.4 times more likely to kill themselves than their married counterparts.1 That study, however, failed to directly compare divorced men and women. While it informed us that divorced people are at higher risk of suicide than the married, it said nothing about the suicide risk of divorced men relative to divorced women. The purpose of this communication is to assess the magnitude of the differentials in suicide risk between the two groups, and explore … ER -