Kevin D. Breault is an American sociologist and Professor of Sociology at Middle Tennessee State University, who researches in the areas of social epidemiology, suicide, homicide, religion in America, and Émile Durkheim.
[6] He has independently published a young adult novel entitled With Wings to Fly, Bloomington, IN, 1st Books, 1999, and is a noted birder and has a top 5 ranking in the American Birding Association on the "Total Ticks" list.
[10] Breault's research has focused on helping to establish the legitimacy of empirical research on Durkheim's theory of suicide, and moving the literature beyond the study of small sample ecological units of analysis to individual level longitudinal study where he has published on depression in the military, diabetes and suicide, now commonly thought of as Social Epidemiology.
[11] In May 2021, Breault co-authored a paper with a group that analyzed diabetes deaths that were less complicated by atherosclerotic and hypertensive cardiovascular disease in a sample of 1.4 million people.
Divorced or separated men had high risk for diabetes mortality presumably because without a spouse they tended to overeat leading to obesity and related morbidity.