The Los Angeles Times (1/13, Khan) reports in “Science Now” that “patients seeking and undergoing” bariatric surgery “were more likely to suffer from depression and binge-eating than the general population – but those with depression often saw their mental health improve after surgery,” the findings of a 68-study meta-analysis published Jan. 12 in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggest. The analysis reveals that “patients who were about to undergo bariatric surgery had rates of depression (19%) and binge-eating disorder (17%) that were both more than twice as high as they were in the general population (about 8% and 1% to 5%, respectively).”
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— “Weight-loss surgery may reduce depression in some patients, study suggests,” Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times, January 12, 2016.