American Journal of Epidemiology Advance Access originally published online on February 17, 2007
American Journal of Epidemiology 2007 165(7):846; doi:10.1093/aje/kwk120
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR |
RE: "MORTALITY AMONG CANADIAN WOMEN WITH COSMETIC BREAST IMPLANTS"
1 Butler Hospital, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02906
2 Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Brown Medical School, Providence, RI 02906
(e-mail: Elizabeth_Didie@brown.edu)
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The recent article by Villeneuve et al. (1), which reported an increased suicide rate among women who received breast implants or other cosmetic surgery compared with the general population, is timely and important. Four previous