Open AccessEvaluation of the association of bariatric surgery with subsequent depression
Author(s) -
Wei Yuan,
KunHsing Yu,
Nathan Palmer,
Fatima Cody Stanford,
Isaac S. Kohane
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
international journal of obesity
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.663
H-Index - 225
eISSN - 1476-5497
pISSN - 0307-0565
DOI - 10.1038/s41366-019-0364-6
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , weight loss , hazard ratio , surgery , prospective cohort study , cohort study , observational study , obesity , cohort , confidence interval , economics , macroeconomics
Bariatric surgery is helpful in enabling sustained weight loss, but effects on depression are unclear. Reductions in depression-related symptoms and increases in suicide rate have both been observed after bariatric surgery, but these observations are confounded by the presence of pre-existing depression. The goal of this study is to evaluate the effect of bariatric surgery on subsequent depression diagnosis.