Suicide attempts and self harm increase in wake of weight-loss surgery, study shows

Wednesday, October 7, 2015 - 10:20 in Health & Medicine

In the three years after they go under the knife, patients who have bariatric surgery to aid in weight loss are more likely than they were before the operation to attempt suicide or end up in the hospital after doing harm to themselves, new research says. As complications of weight-loss surgery...

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