MedPage Today (11/22, Firth) reported, “Nurses are at a higher risk of suicide and are more likely to have experienced a job problem prior to taking their lives compared to others in the general population,” researchers concluded after “examining 12 years of suicide data from 2005 to 2016.” The findings were presented at the Fuld Institute for EBP National Summit.

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— “New Research Suggests Nurses at Increased Risk for Suicide, “Shannon Firth, MedPage Today, November 22, 2019

Reuters (11/21, Rapaport) reports that Hispanic Americans “may experience worsening mental health when immigration arrests spike, a U.S. study suggests.” Researchers “examined data on people who identified as Hispanic or Latino in nationally-representative behavioral health surveys administered from 2014 to 2018.” The study was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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— “, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters , November 21, 2019

Healio (11/21, Gramigna) reports researchers found that “women with eating disorders are at an increased risk for adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes and should thus be recognized as a high-risk population among pregnant women.” The researchers wrote, “From a clinical point of view, these findings emphasize the importance of developing a reliable antenatal routine enabling identification of women with ongoing or previous eating disorders and considering extended pregnancy screening.” The findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “Women with eating disorders experience adverse pregnancy, neonatal outcomes, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, November 21, 2019

U.S. News & World Report (11/21, Galvin) reports, “Deaths tied to traumatic brain injuries have risen amid higher rates of suicides and accidental falls in the U.S., a new analysis (11/21) says.” There “were 61,131 TBI-linked deaths in 2017 alone, and nearly half of these deaths were by suicide or homicide from 2015 to 2017, according to the study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The report “details an alarming uptick in TBI-related suicides, the vast majority of which were by gun.”

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— “Suicide Is Top Cause of Deaths Tied to Traumatic Brain Injury, “Gaby Galvin, U.S. News & World Report, November 21, 2019

The Miami (FL) Herald (11/20, Mayo) reports on diabulimia, “an eating disorder combined with the chronic illness of type 1 diabetes [T1D].” The condition, in which “patients learn how to restrict, or even omit, their insulin in order to lose or control weight,” is “growing at an alarming rate among adolescents and young patients with” T1D.

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— “They’re underdosing insulin to lose weight. It’s a risky game diabetic girls are playing , “Christina Mayo, The Miami Herald, November 20, 2019