Lithium in drinking water

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Feb 2010 English Publisher:Royal College of PsychiatristsJournal:British Journal of Psychiatry, volume 196, pages 159-160 (issn: 0007-1250, eissn: 1472-1465,

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Authors: Gerhard N, Schrauzer; Krishna P, Shrestha;

doi: 10.1192/bjp.196.2.159a

pmid: 20118466

Lithium in drinking water

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Abstract

In 1990 we reported that the mean suicide rates in 27 Texas counties over a 10-year period were consistently lower in those with ‘high’ natural lithium content in the drinking water (70–160 μg/l) than in counties with ‘medium’ (12–60 μg/l) or ‘low’ (0–10 μg/l) water lithium

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University of California, San Diego
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Arkansas State University Mountain Home
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Keywords

Suicide, Research Design, Water Supply, Humans, Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic, Lithium

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