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Weight Loss Boosts Mood in the Severely Obese
Weight Loss Boosts Mood in the Severely Obese
Mon Sep 29, 4:41 PM ET NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who are severely obese are often very depressed, and this is especially true for young women with a poor body image. However, those who undergo surgery to shed excess pounds often report a lessening of their depression. The link between depression and severe obesity is unclear, write Dr. John B. Dixon and colleagues from Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, in the current issue of the medical journal Archives of Internal Medicine (news - web sites). To investigate, they had 487 severely obese people, scheduled for stomach-banding surgery to help them lose weight, complete a standard questionnaire designed to spot depression. They did this before the surgery and at yearly intervals after surgery. Before surgery, scores on the so-called Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) averaged 17.7. One year after surgery, scores had fallen markedly to 7.8, according to the team. Four years after weight loss surgery, scores remained lower than pre-surgery levels, at 9.6. Factors associated with higher depression scores were younger age, female sex, a history of depression, poor physical function, and poor body image. Weight did not predict higher depression levels, according to Dixon and colleagues. The investigators say their findings support the idea that depression and obesity often go hand-in-hand, and that those most affected by depression get the greatest mental health benefit from surgical weight loss procedures. SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, September 22, 2003. *************** -- Steve º¤º°`°º¤ø,¸¸,ø¤º°`°º¤º Steve Chaney Remove "Vegetus." to get my real email address See the soc.singles HALL OF STUPID: http://member.newsguy.com/~gunhed/hallofstupid "If only sheep could cook, we wouldn't need women at all! 8)" - Dizzy, Message-ID: "Outside of this group, I don't remember hearing anyone in RL say that fat people are worthless." - some anonymous coward admitting the truth, Message-ID: "I watched The Accused last night with Jodie Foster. Tough movie. I was wondering what people felt as to whether or not they feel she deserved what happened to her." - Brenda Lee Ehmka, Message-ID: "Jade, your whole existence is spent trying to find people you can justify vetting your rage toward thorugh all forms of harassment. Do you realize that?" - Sunny, on Jade's life in a nutshell |
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Weight Loss Boosts Mood in the Severely Obese
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Weight Loss Boosts Mood in the Severely Obese
Factors associated with higher depression scores were younger age, female
sex, a history of depression, poor physical function, and poor body image. Weight did not predict higher depression levels, according to Dixon and colleagues. The investigators say their findings support the idea that depression and obesity often go hand-in-hand, and that those most affected by depression get the greatest mental health benefit from surgical weight loss procedures. They seem to be concluding that undergoing surgery gives relief from depression, because their study has already concluded that weight doesn't have anything to do with it. This is more advert than science. Ray -- rmnsuk overall - 273/203/182 swwc - 205/203/192 |
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