ByĀ Robbie Gonzalez
Male suicides outnumber female in every country on Earth, usually by a lot. In the U.S., men kill themselves around four times as often as women.
But results of a newly published study reveal Americaās female veterans commit suicide at nearly six times the rate of other womenāa rate that approaches that of male veterans. The question is: Why?
The study was led by Veterans Affairs epidemiologist Claire Hoffmire and appears in the latest issue of Psychiatric Services. Hoffmire and her colleagues were reportedly surprised by the results, and they offer no definitive explanations for the long-overlooked pattern.
Northeastern University epidemiologist and suicide expert Dr. Matthew Miller captured the 
studyās results and significance perfectly: āItās staggering,ā he told Alan Zarembo of the L.A. Times. āWe have to come to grips with why the rates are so obscenely high.ā
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