Fw: Another study links suicides and breast implants ...

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God help us to make clear to these people that these suicides are not entirely from a failure to do a proper mental assessment! It is from their failing to recognize the illnesses that develop and then leaving us to languish when they say it is all in our heads! I mean HELP US LORD!!!!!!

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Subject: Another study links suicides and breast implants ...

Breast implants may be linked to suicides

http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20030910-064821-1471r.htm

PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 10 (UPI) -- A new study indicates women who

undergo cosmetic breast implant surgery may have a threefold increase

in their risk of suicide.

Sarwer of the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine said

the findings highlight the need for plastic surgeons to assess their

patients' mental health status before performing breast enlargement

surgery.

Sarwer will discuss the findings during the 22nd Annual American

Medical Association's Science Reporters Conference, to be held

Thursday and Friday in Philadelphia. The study by a team of Finnish

and American researchers will be published in the October issue of the

journal ls of Plastic Surgery.

The researchers identified 2,166 women undergoing cosmetic breast

implant surgery in Finland from 1970 through 2000. They then compared

the causes of death for women with breast implants with women in the

general population.

They found women in the breast-implant group had a rate of suicide

three times higher than in the general population.

Sarwer said the study is the third in recent years to show an

increased suicide risk in women who undergo breast enlargement

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