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Adrian Black

Increased heat linked to suicidal thoughts in the young

Doctors are increasingly concerned about the risk rising temperatures pose to young people's health. (Dan Himbrechts/AAP PHOTOS)

The number of young Australians presenting to hospital with suicidal thoughts or behaviour increases during hotter weather.

University of NSW-led research found suicidal emergency department presentations by 12 to 24-year-olds increased by 1.3 per cent for every one degree rise in daily mean temperature.

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