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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Aug 9.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsy Behav. 2016 Jun 30;61:210–217. doi: 10.1016/j.yebeh.2016.05.028

Table 1.

Estimated Annual Suicide Mortality Rates among People with Epilepsy in the General Population (10 years old and older) — U.S. National Violent Death Reporting System, 17 States, 2003–2011.

Years Estimated numbers of people with epilepsy by participating states with vary data entering years1 Estimated No. of people with epilepsy Total Suicide cases with epilepsy Annual2 Suicide mortality rate (/100,000)
AK CO GA KY MD MA NJ NM NC OH Ok OR RI SC UT VA WI
2003 5349 x x x 46435 54973 72833 x x x x 30189 35145 x 62520 x 307444 40 13.01
2004 5459 38486 73049 x 46940 55000 73040 x 72348 x 29709 30432 9233 35717 x 63482 46838 579733 82 14.14
2005 5537 38972 66584 35515 47418 55048 73323 16203 73638 x 29896 30848 92001 36251 19510 64409 47171 732324 93 12.70
2006 5611 39725 76271 35828 47793 55210 73564 16471 75438 x 30262 31364 9183 37020 20016 65288 47458 666502 94 14.10
2007 5657 40410 77834 36143 48069 55475 73818 16700 77051 x 30567 31824 9146 37741 20545 65966 47739 674685 105 15.56
2008 5722 41136 79178 36409 48385 55872 74200 16863 78689 x 30846 32231 9141 38469 21033 66705 48001 682880 114 16.69
2009 5799 41848 80298 36668 48833 56370 74661 17073 79936 x 31230 32604 9147 39012 21500 67545 48258 690782 118 17.08
2010 5929 42542 81219 36954 49378 56857 75163 17327 80997 x 31574 32891 9151 39469 21924 68435 48480 698290 162 23.20
2011 6014 43240 82229 37161 49898 57325 75560 17464 81941 98669 31811 33216 9144 39864 22301 69213 48739 803789 164 20.40
Total 5836429 972 16.70

Abbreviations: AK, Alaska; CO, Colorado; GA, Georgia; KY, Kentucky; MD, Maryland; MA, Massachusetts; NJ, New Jersey; NM, New Mexico; NC, North Carolina; OH, Ohio; OK, Oklahoma; OR, Oregon; RI, Rhode Island; SC, South Carolina; UT, Utah; VA, Virginia; WI, Wisconsin; X, unavailable.

1

The estimated number of people with epilepsy in each state in each year is the sum of people with epilepsy from 10–17 years old and from 18 years old older. These numbers were calculated by multiplying the estimated prevalence of epilepsy in U.S. children 10–17 years old (8.1/1,000) and the prevalence of epilepsy in the U.S. adults ≥18 years old (10.0/1,000) by the corresponding age-specific populations in each specific state and year (see Methods section).

2

The annual suicide mortality rate is the ratio of total number of people with epilepsy who committed suicide to the total estimated number of people with epilepsy each year.