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"},"content":{"rendered":"JAMA<\/em><\/a> JAMA Embargoed until August 28, 2018 11:00 am EDT (News release from JAMA Network) This study estimates that 195,000 to\u00a0276,000 people died from gunshot injuries globally in 2016, with the majority being murders. Despite an overall decrease in rates of gun death since 1990, rates vary country and across demographic subgroups. The most deaths in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1CK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6247,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6246\/revisions\/6247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nEmbargoed until August 28, 2018 11:00 am EDT<\/strong> (News release<\/a> from JAMA Network)
\nThis study estimates that 195,000 to\u00a0276,000 people died from gunshot injuries globally in 2016, with the majority being murders. Despite an overall decrease in rates of gun death since 1990, rates vary country and across demographic subgroups. The most deaths in 2016 occurred among people aged 20 to 24 years, including 34,700 deaths among men and 3,580 deaths among women.
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\nCanadian co-authors:<\/strong> Nadia Akseer, Hospital for Sick Children – Nadia.akseer@sickkids.ca<\/a>; Zulfiqar Bhutta, Hospital for Sick Children – zulfiqar.bhutta@sickkids.ca<\/a>; Farshad Pourmalek, University of British Columbia –\u00a0farshad.pourmalek@ubc.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"