{"id":52990,"date":"2022-10-01T08:32:27","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T15:32:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52990"},"modified":"2022-10-03T09:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-10-03T16:32:51","slug":"us-suicide-rates-rise-following-2-year-decline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=52990","title":{"rendered":"US SUICIDE RATES RISE FOLLOWING 2-YEAR DECLINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rates of suicide in the U.S.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29232496.2110\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2RjLmdvdi9uY2hzL2RhdGEvdnNyci92c3JyMDI0LnBkZj9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTA5LjMwLjIyJTIwRU0lMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwLSUyMEhlYWx0aCUyMENhcmU\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB2ed328c9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nxslink.thehill.com\/click\/29232496.2110\/aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuY2RjLmdvdi9uY2hzL2RhdGEvdnNyci92c3JyMDI0LnBkZj9lbWFpbD1iMGJlZmIyZGFmY2UzYTg3ZTdmMTM2YmIwNjU0ZGYwNTNmODQ1M2FjJmVtYWlsYT0xYTI3NTdlMzU4MDAxYmEyNjMxOGIwMmI4NmY0MTMxMSZlbWFpbGI9YzFiNTg5MWVjODJkZTA5ZGJjZjk3M2FkNDk1NDYwMzJlY2U3OTUwZmIzYTdlN2NhODZkZDljZmNjYWJlNjliOCZ1dG1fc291cmNlPVNhaWx0aHJ1JnV0bV9tZWRpdW09ZW1haWwmdXRtX2NhbXBhaWduPTA5LjMwLjIyJTIwRU0lMjBUaGUlMjBIaWxsJTIwLSUyMEhlYWx0aCUyMENhcmU\/6230d8c8b246d104952dff9aB2ed328c9&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1664668621716000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3jfx-qpXQaoJDQvJlbXdN1\">increased<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 following a two-year period of decline, according to new provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Compared with 2020, last year saw a 4 percent increase in suicides overall, according to death records processed by the National Center for Health Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>Although total monthly suicides were lower in January, February and July of 2021 compared with the previous year, all other months outpaced 2020. Totals were also<br \/>\n1 percent lower than peak rates measured in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The trend is worrying experts who fear rates are rebounding to those measured before the pandemic.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The suicide rate among men was greater than that of women in 2021:<br \/>\n4 percent and 2 percent, respectively.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cBy age group, the largest statistically significant percentage increase from 2020 to 2021 was for males aged 15\u201324, by 8%,\u201d authors wrote, adding no significant declines were measured in any male age group.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rates of suicide in the U.S.\u00a0increased\u00a0in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52991,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52990\/revisions\/52991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}