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Breast implants linked to increased suicide rate.
2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Women who undergo cosmetic breast implant surgery may have a threefold increase in their risk of suicide, suggests a study authored by a team of Finnish and American researchers.
A paper on the study will be published in the October 2003 issue of Annals of Plastic Surgery.
The findings highlight the need for plastic surgeons to assess patients' mental health status before performing breast enlargement surgery, according to David B. Sarwer, PhD, of the Center for Human Appearance at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. Sarwer discussed the new results at the 22nd Annual AMA Science Reporters Conference, held September 11-12, 2003.
The team, led by Eero Pukkala, PhD of the Finnish Cancer Registry and Joseph K. McLaughlin, PhD, of the International Epidemiology Institute, identified 2,166 women undergoing cosmetic breast implant surgery at hospitals and clinics in Finland from 1970 through 2000. They then compared rates and causes of death for women with breast implants with women in the general population.
Overall risk of death and risk of death from cancer were both no higher than expected for women with breast implants. Their risk of death from diseases of the circulatory system was actually lower than in the general population, possibly reflecting a healthier lifestyle among women who choose to undergo breast implant surgery.
However, women in the breast-implant group had a higher than expected rate of suicide: three times higher than in the general population. The risk ...
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