Reuters (11/21, Rapaport) reports that Hispanic Americans “may experience worsening mental health when immigration arrests spike, a U.S. study suggests.” Researchers “examined data on people who identified as Hispanic or Latino in nationally-representative behavioral health surveys administered from 2014 to 2018.” The study was published in the American Journal of Public Health.

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— “, “Lisa Rapaport, Reuters , November 21, 2019

Healio (11/21, Gramigna) reports researchers found that “women with eating disorders are at an increased risk for adverse pregnancy and neonatal outcomes and should thus be recognized as a high-risk population among pregnant women.” The researchers wrote, “From a clinical point of view, these findings emphasize the importance of developing a reliable antenatal routine enabling identification of women with ongoing or previous eating disorders and considering extended pregnancy screening.” The findings were published in JAMA Psychiatry.

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— “Women with eating disorders experience adverse pregnancy, neonatal outcomes, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, November 21, 2019

U.S. News & World Report (11/21, Galvin) reports, “Deaths tied to traumatic brain injuries have risen amid higher rates of suicides and accidental falls in the U.S., a new analysis (11/21) says.” There “were 61,131 TBI-linked deaths in 2017 alone, and nearly half of these deaths were by suicide or homicide from 2015 to 2017, according to the study released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.” The report “details an alarming uptick in TBI-related suicides, the vast majority of which were by gun.”

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— “Suicide Is Top Cause of Deaths Tied to Traumatic Brain Injury, “Gaby Galvin, U.S. News & World Report, November 21, 2019

The Miami (FL) Herald (11/20, Mayo) reports on diabulimia, “an eating disorder combined with the chronic illness of type 1 diabetes [T1D].” The condition, in which “patients learn how to restrict, or even omit, their insulin in order to lose or control weight,” is “growing at an alarming rate among adolescents and young patients with” T1D.

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— “They’re underdosing insulin to lose weight. It’s a risky game diabetic girls are playing , “Christina Mayo, The Miami Herald, November 20, 2019

The Washington Post (11/20, Wan) reports, “Years after being shot, a large proportion of gun victims continue to suffer from increased unemployment, alcohol and drug abuse, and post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study shows, and the effects persist even when the injuries were minor.” The study authors acknowledge “that treatment for gun injuries may need to change,” as “currently, patients may be discharged quickly from the hospital, often with no checks on their mental health or follow-up care. And they say growing evidence suggests that gunshot trauma is harder to recover from than other types of injuries.” The report was published Wednesday in the journal JAMA Surgery.

HealthDay (11/20, Mozes) reports, “About 70,000 Americans survive gun shootings every year, but little research has looked at the long-term aftereffects, the study team said.” For this study, they “conducted phone interviews with 183 patients who were shot between 2008 and 2017 and treated at an urban, level 1 trauma center.”

Among the news outlets covering this story are Newsweek (11/20, Gander) and Healio (11/20, Gramigna).

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— “Shooting victims have increased risk of mental harm long after physical injuries have healed, study finds, “William Wan, The Washington Post, November 20, 2019