A report published in The American Journal of Medicine (AJM) lends additional support to the discovery that people who receive bariatric surgery have a suicide rate that is greater than the average.
This is not to imply that weight-loss surgery itself is a catalyst to suicide, because there is no convincing evidence to support this. The fact is that at this point in time there is no concrete explanation to the increased prevalence of suicide in obesity surgery patients.
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