Men hit harder by divorce

London - A US study has shown that men who are separated or divorced are more than twice as likely to commit suicide than their…

London - A US study has shown that men who are separated or divorced are more than twice as likely to commit suicide than their married or attached counterparts.

"Marital status, especially divorce, has a strong net effect on mortality from suicide, but only among men," Mr Augustine Kposowa says in today's Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.

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