Posted on 08/08/2007 8:13:39 PM PDT by RDTF
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Women who get cosmetic breast implants are nearly three times as likely to commit suicide as other women, U.S. researchers reported on Wednesday.
The study, published in the Annals of Plastic Surgery, reinforces several others that have shown women who have breast enlargements have higher suicide risks.
Loren Lipworth of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Tennessee and colleagues followed up on 3,527 Swedish women who had cosmetic breast implant surgery between 1965 and 1993. They looked at death certificates to analyze causes of death among women with breast implants.
Only 24 of the women had committed suicide after an average of 19 years, but this worked out to triple the risk compared to the average population, they reported. Doctors who perform cosmetic breast surgery may want to monitor patients closely or screen them for suicide risk, Lipworth said.
"The increased risk of suicide was not apparent until 10 years after implantation," the researchers wrote.
Lipworth said she believes that some women who get implants may have psychiatric problems to start with, perhaps linked with lower self-esteem or body image disorders.
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Post op ergo propter op.
Hmmm...low self image to begin with...
Spurious correlation. Women who are willing to alter their bodies to some degree (tattoos, breast implants, plastic surgery, piercing, etc.)...ah....er... what was I just saying?
I admit it...I laughed a little at that.
A master theorist..... This must be the same genius who showed how carrying matchbooks doesn't really cause lung cancer.
Actually, that picture makes me feel better about myself! Thanks! ;)
Of course, it also kinda makes me sick.....
susie
Note to self: Do not eat before reading FR comments and pictures.
Maybe they just hadn't gotten used to handling the extra weight when they bent over to look out the window....
What in the world do you suppose that woman was thinking when she put on that bikini top with THOSE? Sorry about the upset stomachs!
I still think it was Colonel Mustard with the marital aid in the kitchen.
As they say in France, "Tout le monde au balcon..."
The same thing she was thinking when she put on that little blue scrap below - “I’m seventy and I still got it!”
Mrs VS
I could have written that line and saved the tax payers all the money for this silly study. Let's see 19 years, 24 people out of 3527.
In the good old USA, we will probably lose 30 are more out of 3527, over the same amount of time, to murder by illegals.
Well, if you look around, there appears to be a real shortage of mirrors in this country. So,I think she thought, like so many sadly mistaken women today, that she looked really HOT dressed like that.
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susie
You need a warning sticker on something like that.
I'll bet she' really closer to 50, maybe around 60, and one of the original "beach bunnies", circa "Beach Blanket Bingo" "Gidgit Goes Hawaiian" etc. For example, Sandra Dee (Gidget) was born in 1942, meaning she'd be 65 if she were still living. This gal is probably just a little younger, but spent a whole lot more time at the beach.
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