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Patients newly diagnosed with dementia are at increased risk of attempting suicide, new US research confirms.
According to the longitudinal cohort study, recently published in JAMA Psychiatry, it is that period directly after the diagnosis of dementia or mild cognitive impairment, when patients are particularly at risk. Once that initial period has passed the risk appears to revert to being the same or less than the general population, the researchers found.
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