Suicide rates in the U.S. have increased for the first time in a decade, with the largest rise among middle-aged white women, Johns Hopkins researchers found.

Between 1999 and 2005, the overall suicide rate rose 0.7 percent, while the rate among white women aged 40 to 64 rose 3.9 percent, according to a new report from the Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy.

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