Km. Carpenter et al., Relationships between obesity and DSM-IV major depressive disorder, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts: Results from a general population study, AM J PUB HE, 90(2), 2000, pp. 251-257
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55
Categorie Soggetti
Public Health & Health Care Science","Envirnomentale Medicine & Public Health","Medical Research General Topics
Objectives. This study sought to test the relationships between relative bo
dy weight and clinical depression suicide ideation, and suicide attempts in
adult US general population sample.
Methods. Respondents were 40 086 African American and White participants in
terviewed in a national survey. Outcome measures were past-year major depre
ssion, suicide ideation, and suicide attempts diagnosed according to the Di
agnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. The pr
imary predictor was relative body weight, treated both continuously (i.e. b
ody mass index [BMI]) and categorically in logistic regression analyses. Co
variates included age, income and education, disease status, and drug and a
lcohol use.
Results. Relative body weight was associated with major depression, suicide
attempts, and suicide ideation, although relationships were different for
men and women. Among women, increased BMI was associated with both major de
pression and suicide ideation. Among men, lower BMI was associated with maj
or depression, suicide attempts, and suicide ideation. There were no racial
differences.
Conclusions. Differences in BMI, or weight status, were associated with the
probability of past-year major depression, suicide attempts, and suicide a
ttempts, and suicide ideation. Longitudinal studies are needed to different
iate the causal pathways and mechanisms linking physical and psychiatric co
nditions.