>>So, they are saying that of the 2800 Danish women who had breast implants, 14 of them committed suicide. This extrapolates to a rate of 500 (!) suicides per 100,000. This is 6000X the "crude rate" of the United States! <<
Not 6000X. About 250X. And a suicide "rate" is the number of suicides per year. I'd estimate the average amount of time those women had the breast implants is probably about 3 years. So you're talking about 83X. And if that's only three times normal, you are dealing with a society as a whole with a suicde rate nearly 30X the US'.
Thanks for catching my mistake.
Isn't 14/2,800 equal to 500/100,000? So the rate of suicide in this Danish group of women was 500 per 100,000.
What number are you using for the rate of suicide among American women? Two per 100,000?