Bakian Lab

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NIH R01 · 2025

The influence of multiple environmental exposures on suicide risk

Project Summary: Suicide is the 10th leading cause of death in the United States with the national economic costs of suicide approximated to be $53 billion annually. While suicide’s causes are complex, suicide clusters in families and it is widely hypothesized that interactions between an underlying genetic predisposition and environmental factors are in suicide’s causal pathway. We recently reported a heightened risk of suicide following short-term exposure to fine particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide among all suicides in Salt Lake County, Utah from 2000-2010. Complementary studies investigating the relationship between weather and suicide have found that suicide risk increases…

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