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Obesity may lead to psychiatric disorders



New York, July 4 (IANS) Obesity may lead to mood and anxiety disorders, reveals a new study.

Gregory E. Simon, along with his colleagues at the Group Health Cooperative, Seattle, studied 9,125 adults across the US and found that obesity could be associated with psychiatric disorders, reported science portal EurekAlert.

Obese adults are at a higher risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and other harmful conditions.

Previous studies have suggested a link between obesity and depression, but little research has examined the associations between obesity and other psychiatric disorders.

Of all the participants, 6,795 had a body mass index (BMI) of less than 30 and 2,330 had a BMI of 30 or more and were therefore considered obese.

Those who were obese had a higher prevalence of mood and anxiety disorders and a lower prevalence of substance abuse disorders over their lifetimes, said the study published in the July issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.

These associations remained similar for men and women. The link between obesity and mood disorders appeared strongest in non-Hispanic whites and in those with higher education levels, suggested the research.

'The estimated prevalence of lifetime mood disorder in those with BMIs below 30 and in those with BMIs 30 or higher translates to a population-attributable risk of 24 percent, which indicates that nearly one-quarter of the cases of obesity in the general population are attributable to the association with mood disorder,' said one of the researchers.



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