Suicides in Teen Girls Hit 40-Year High [NBCNews.com]

Samantha Sangenito 8/8/174:00 AM

The suicide rate among teenage girls continues to rise and hit a 40-year high in 2015, according to a new analysis released Thursday.

Suicide rates doubled among girls and rose by more than 30 percent among teen boys and young men between 2007 and 2015, the updated breakdownfrom Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds.

It’s all part of a growing national trend for more suicides, said CDC suicide expert Thomas Simon.

“There has been a substantial increase in suicide rates in adolescents aged 15 to 19 between 2007 and 2015,” Simon said.

“Nationally overall we have been seeing an increase in suicide rates that is pretty pervasive among all age groups,” added Simon. Overall suicide rates have gone up 28 percent since 2000, he said.

[For more of this story, written by Maggie Fox, go to http://www.nbcnews.com/health/...40-year-high-n789351]

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