Serum lipids, recent suicide attempt and recent suicide status in patients with major depressive disorder

Suicidal behaviour and lipid levels in unipolar and bipolar depression

“…Recent research (9,10) also reported low levels of triglycerides associated with suicidality. However, our study found no association between HDL cholesterol and any of the suicidal parameters studied, thus contradicting the results recently obtained by Baek et al (10).…”

Serum triglycerides, but not cholesterol or leptin, are decreased in suicide attempters with mood disorders

“…However, this lack of relationship is in agreement with some other studies in the literature (Almeida-Montes et al, 2000;Asellus et al, 2010;Paplos et al, 2012;Park et al, 2013;Persons et al, 2012) and our data are in accordance with two other independent and contemporary studies in individuals with BD and MDD, where no differences were found in serum cholesterol content (Baek et al, 2014;D'Ambrosio et al, 2012). We did not find any difference in total cholesterol, HDL or LDL.…”

Associations between serum lipid levels and suicidal ideation among Korean older people

“…While these findings are consistent with those of some previous studies (Chang et al, 2012;Roaldset et al, 2014), others have reported the opposite results (Baek et al, 2014;da Graca Cantarelli et al, 2014;Park et al, 2014). These inconsistent results appear to originate from methodological differences such as choice of suicidal behavior, target sample, and confounding factors.…”

“…However, some studies have found no association between total cholesterol and suicidal behavior (D'Ambrosio et al, 2012;da Graca Cantarelli et al, 2014;Huang, 2005;Persons et al, 2012). On the other hand, several studies have demonstrated an association between triglyceride levels and suicide risk, though their findings were not consistent (Baek et al, 2014;Chang et al, 2012;da Graca Cantarelli et al, 2014;Lee and Kim, 2003;Park et al, 2014;Roaldset et al, 2014).…”