{"id":9966,"date":"2018-09-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/04\/self-injury-tops-diabetes-as-cause-of-death-in-united-states\/"},"modified":"2018-09-05T16:05:45","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T16:05:45","slug":"self-injury-tops-diabetes-as-cause-of-death-in-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/04\/self-injury-tops-diabetes-as-cause-of-death-in-united-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Self-Injury Tops Diabetes As Cause of Death in United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>In 2016, death rates were 29.1 versus 24.8 per 100,000 population<\/h3>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>TUESDAY, Sept. 4, 2018 (HealthDay News) &#8212; In the United States, self-injury mortality (SIM) exceeded diabetes as a cause of death in 2015, with the gap expanding in 2016, according to a study published online Aug. 27 in <i>Injury Prevention<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Ian R.H. Rockett, Ph.D., M.P.H., from West Virginia University in Morgantown, and colleagues examined mortality from self-injury in the United States. SIM comprised registered or known suicides by any method and estimated non-suicide deaths from opioid or other drug self-intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that in 2015, SIM surpassed diabetes as a cause of death in the United States. In 2016, the gap expanded, with rates of 29.1 and 24.8 per 100,000 population, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Development of strategies to prevent SIM will be facilitated by focusing on factors that are common risks for diverse outcomes,&#8221; the authors write. &#8220;Like premature mortality frequently associated with diabetes, deaths from self-injurious behaviors are preventable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/injuryprevention.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/injuryprev-2018-042889\" target=\"_new\">Abstract\/Full Text<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthday.com\/\" target=\"_new\">HealthDay<\/a>. All rights reserved.<\/i>   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2016, death rates were 29.1 versus 24.8 per 100,000 population<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":10001,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[11],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medgoo.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}