16.7%); however, the difference did not reach statistical significance.
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Association of HTTLPR, BDNF, and FTO Genetic Variants with Completed Suicide in Slovakia.
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Although the data from 2019 showed that the suicide mortality rate had a decreasing trend (from 19.65 to 10.50 per population of 100,000) in Europe between the years 2000–2019, the COVID-19 pandemic could have affected the current situation, and the most recent data are yet to come [ 2 , 3 ].
A nominally significant association between the gene variant and BMI was observed for BDNF rs962369 under the overdominant model.
In our study, 98% of cases overall completed suicide with the violent method; the most frequent method (around 60%) was hanging or suffocation, a method with an increasing trend in many countries over the last 30 years [ 31 , 32 ]. 4.1.