(NBC) – States with the highest youth suicide rates also have higher gun ownership, this according to a new study from Boston University.

Researchers studied data from the CDC on suicides of youth ages 10-19.

In the states with the highest suicide rate, over half of the households owned guns.

And in the states with the lowest rate, gun ownership was 20 percent.

The state with the highest rate of suicides was Alaska, and the lowest was New Jersey.