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A comment on Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017. Parent comment

Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by anbop on Monday June 24, 2019 @05:15PM (#20268570)
Is this based on physician diagnosis or some objective metric like fraction of teens with BMI < X?
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Re:Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the U... by lazyasciiart on Monday June 24, 2019 @07:31PM (#20269617)
The fraction of teens with BMI < x is not a measure of how many teens have eating disorders. To pick the simplest possible confounding factor - teens dying of cancer would be false positives.
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