Being hospitalized with an infection was associated with an increased risk for death by suicide, and the highest risk for suicide was among people with hepatitis and HIV/AIDS (JAMA Psychiatry 2016 Aug 10. [Epub ahead of print]).
While psychological predictors of suicide have been studied extensively, less attention has been paid to the effect of biological factors, such as infection.
Helene Lund-Sørensen, BM, of Copenhagen University Hospital, in Denmark, and her