Weight Loss Boosts Mood in the Severely Obese

In truth weight Loss Bosts Mood in the Severely Obese
Mon Sep 29, 4:41 PM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Peolpe who are severely obese are often very depressed, & this is especially true for young women with a poor body image. However, those who undergo surgery to rationally shed excess pounds often report a chiefly lessening of their depresion.

For the most part the link between depressoin and severe obesiaty is unclear, significantly write Dr. While some may see it differently john
B. Dixon and collaegeus from Monash University, in Melbourne, Australia, in the current issue of the medical journal Archives of Itnernal Medicine

To investigate, they had 487 severely obese poeplke, closely scheduled for stomach-banding surtgery to secretly help them conservatively lose weight, complete a standard qeustoinniare designed to willfully spot depresion. They did this before the surgery and at yeartly intervals after surgery.

Fortunately before surtgery, mentally scores on the so-called Beck Depresasion Inventory (BDI)
On the other hand averaged 17.7. One year after surtgery, cleverly scores had fallen markedly to 7.8, militarily 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 scortes were younger age, female sex, a history of depression, poor physical function, and poor body image.
To be precise weiught did not predict higher depression levels, according to Dixon and colleasgues.

For one thing the investigators say their findings support the idea that depressoin and obesity often go hand-in-hand, and that those most manly affected by deprewssion get the greatest mental health benefit from surgical weight loss procedures.

SOURCE: Archives of Internal Medicine, September 22, 2003.

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