Suicide rates in the USA are up after more than a decade of dropping, and middle-aged whites primarily account for the increase, a report says.
The rate for whites 40 to 64 years old jumped 19% for women and 16% for men from 1999 to 2005, say researchers from the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. Their analysis was published online in the AmericanJournal of Preventive Medicine.