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    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.

    "I think we don't even know how big of a problem it is because we cannot even pinpoint what proportion of women have psychiatric disorders," Lipworth said in a telephone interview.

    "There could be a whole lot of different disorders." Women with breast implants also had a tripled risk of death from alcohol and drug use.

    "Thus, at least 38 deaths (22 percent of all deaths) in this implant cohort were associated with suicide, psychological disorders and/or drug and alcohol abuse/dependence," the researchers wrote.

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    I hope people realize the difference between correlation and causation.

    And of course there are different reasons for getting BA. I also hope people realize that the reason a stripper does might be different than a housewife.

    But I think the article is more titilating without actually thinking about these things.

    Now excuse me while I go ponder suicide.

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    Emily- I was going to mention all the same things... well exept that last one.

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    Yep, Emily already said it.

    The article is not saying that boobs will make you kill yourself. Any psych 101 class teaches you that correlation does not imply causation. The more likely scenario is that women who have low self esteem/body image issues are more likely to go under the knife, which correlates with: women with low self esteem/body image issues are more likely to be suicidal.

    Nice try on the scare tactics though.

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    Quote Originally Posted by Emily View Post

    And of course there are different reasons for getting BA. I also hope people realize that the reason a stripper does might be different than a housewife.
    Quote Originally Posted by Zabrina View Post
    The more likely scenario is that women who have low self esteem/body image issues are more likely to go under the knife, which correlates with: women with low self esteem/body image issues are more likely to be suicidal.
    I think those are really good points that probably should have been better addressed in the articles about this study.



    Quote Originally Posted by Zabrina View Post
    Nice try on the scare tactics though.
    gosh, I hope that was directed at the article and not me because that isn't why posted it this morning. I just thought this was an unusual health news story that would be interesting to alot of people here.

    But anyway, I want to make it clear that I wasn't casting any opinion whatsoever on BA's. I was just posting an unusual health study done about the subject. So sorry if it came across otherwise

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    Its addressed to sensationalist article, not you!

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    well, you did post the subject line with the word "equal"...which implies causation, and that's our issue with the thread. Using words like "associated", "linked", etc might have been a better choice if you didn't want to project that your opinion is the same as the author's.

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    The suicide studies have been done before, this isnt the first time.
    Its interesting.
    I agree with what Zabrina said although I would add that at 10 years after a BA possible implant complications come into the equation too. For women who have severe problems after a BA I think 10 years is a significant amount of time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Emily View Post
    well, you did post the subject line with the word "equal"...which implies causation, and that's our issue with the thread. Using words like "associated", "linked", etc might have been a better choice if you didn't want to project that your opinion is the same as the author's.
    It was not intentional. I was just trying to describe what the article was about in a short and to the point manner.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aussiepunkshocker View Post
    The suicide studies have been done before, this isnt the first time.
    Its interesting.
    I agree with what Zabrina said although I would add that at 10 years after a BA possible implant complications come into the equation too. For women who have severe problems after a BA I think 10 years is a significant amount of time.

    I was curious as to the 10 year connection. I wonder what the common thread might be with that time frame

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    Default Re: BA's equal 3X more likely for suicide

    ^Easy. They're getting older.

    For women who have their self-esteem tied up with their looks, their body image, their physical and sexual attractiveness....getting older sucks big swollen monkey testicles.

    Most women get their boobs done in their twenties, right? Ten-plus years down the line and they're getting to the age where they start to feel their attractiveness plummet precipitously...Additionally, once you pass 35, the consequences of all the mistakes you made when you were younger, when you figured you had all the time in the world to put things right eventually....They begin to seem more real, more significant, and crushingly irreversible.
    "Doc still loved true things, but he knew it was not a general love and it could be a very dangerous mistress." - John Steinbeck, Cannery Row


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