What The Study Did: This analysis of nearly 68,000 firearm-related deaths among U.S. youth ages 5 to 24 over a 10-year period found an association between firearm-related mortality rates and county-level poverty concentration.
Authors: Jefferson T. Barrett, M.D., M.P.H., of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in New York, is the corresponding author.
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(doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2021.4822)
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