Troubled people who have weight-loss surgery are more likely to attempt suicide following the procedure, a new study suggests.
These patients were about 50 percent more likely to try to take their own lives after they lost a lot of weight, while more than nine of 10 suicide attempts involved patients with a history of mental health problems, the Canadian researchers found.
"While we are clear and confident about the medical benefits of weight loss, especially through weight-loss surgery, I think we're not as attentive to the potential psychological benefits or harms of it," said Dr. Amir Ghaferi, director of bariatric surgery at the Ann Arbor Veterans Administration Healthcare System in Michigan.
[For more of this story, written by Dennis Thompson, go to http://consumer.healthday.com/...-surgery-703970.html]
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