Suicidal behaviour ‘transmits’ to offspring, study suggests
Findings from a study covering thousands of exposures to parental suicide underscores the importance of family history and early intervention, researchers say
People with a parent who died by suicide are about three times as likely as someone in the general population to also die by suicide, a large registry study suggests.
The Danish study of 4.5 million patient records also found that, if parents made a suicide attempt, their children were more than 2.5 times more likely than others to make such an attempt.
