Cholesterol and Suicide

Lower cholesterol is associated with increased depression, suicidality, and lethality of suicide attempts.

I’ve seen this posted around a few times and decided to do a little more poking. The early research (1997) noted a relationship between low cholesterol and suicide, though in later research (2000, 2001, 2012) it was suspected that the mechanism of operation was depression as the observational relationship between low cholesterol and depression was also …