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| ==Overview==
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| The prevalence of suicidal ideation is approximately 18490 per 100,000 individuals worldwide.
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| ==Epidemiology and Demographics==
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| ===Prevalence===
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| *The prevalence of suicidal ideation is approximately 18490 per 100,000 individuals worldwide
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| ===Age===
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| Suicide is the third leading cause of death among
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| persons aged 10-14, the second among persons
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| aged 15-34 years, the fourth among persons aged
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| 35-44 years, the fifth among persons aged 45-54
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| years, the eighth among person 55-64 years, and the
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| seventeenth among persons 65 years and older
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| ===Race===
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| African Americans commit suicide at rates much lower than those for whites, but they do so when much younger and they have a narrow, age-defined window of vulnerability. Age-specific psycho-pathological processes and protective factors may define suicide risk for each demographic group.<ref name="pmid15677592">{{cite journal |vauthors=Guthrie RM, Bryant RA |title=Auditory startle response in firefighters before and after trauma exposure |journal=Am J Psychiatry |volume=162 |issue=2 |pages=283–90 |year=2005 |pmid=15677592 |doi=10.1176/appi.ajp.162.2.283 |url=}}</ref>
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| ===Gender===
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| * Women are more likely to have suicidal thoughts, but the majority of deaths by suicide are by men
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| *The male to female ratio is approximately 4 to 1
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| ==References==
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