Arató M
HIETE, Service de Psychiatrie, Hongrie.
Encephale. 1996 Dec;22 Spec No 4:25-7.
Hungary has had a traditionally high suicide rate in the last century. With a twofold increase between 1960 and 1985, this country had the highest recorded suicide rate in the world. This dramatic increase was due to an extreme high suicide mortality in elderly people. A very strong age effect, especially in women, is a unique phenomenon. Further demographic, epidemiological, psychosocial and biological investigations were carried out in the recent years, and overviewed here briefly. Post-mortem psychiatric assessment of suicide victims, biological research and epidemiological data suggest that undiagnosed and untreated depression is a significant factor in the high suicide mortality.
在上个世纪，匈牙利的自杀率一直居高不下。1960年至1985年间自杀率增长了两倍，该国成为世界上有记录以来自杀率最高的国家。这种急剧增长是由于老年人的自杀死亡率极高。一种非常强烈的年龄效应，尤其是在女性中，是一种独特的现象。近年来开展了进一步的人口统计学、流行病学、心理社会学和生物学调查，在此简要概述。对自杀受害者的尸检精神评估、生物学研究和流行病学数据表明，未被诊断和治疗的抑郁症是自杀死亡率高的一个重要因素。
