TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Excess suicide risk and other external causes of death among women with cosmetic breast implants: a neglected research priority
JO  - Current psychiatry reports
A1  - Lipworth, Loren
A1  - McLaughlin, Joseph K.
SP  - 234
EP  - 238
VL  - 12
IS  - 3
N2  - Five large epidemiologic mortality studies of women with cosmetic breast implants have consistently reported a two- to threefold higher rate of suicide compared with the general female population. Overall, 135 suicides have been observed, compared with 66.9 expected, yielding a significantly elevated standardized mortality ratio of 2.0 (95% CI, 1.5-2.6). In addition to suicides, excesses from other external causes of death related to drug and alcohol abuse/dependence, atypical motor vehicle accidents, and other self-harm causes have been consistently reported. These observations, together with limited but direct epidemiologic evidence of preimplant psychiatric hospitalization, as well as self-reports of preimplant psychiatric disorders, including depression, eating disorders, and body image dissatisfaction, among implant women raise the possibility of significant underlying psychiatric morbidity for a subgroup of implant patients. Research into the psychiatric profiles and history of the women who have committed suicide in the investigated cohorts appears warranted.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1523-3812
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11920-010-0115-9
ID  - ref1
ER  -