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- Mental illness is associated with a higher risk of obesity, often linked to the medications used to treat these conditions.
- A study involving 261 adult psychiatric inpatients and 81 controls found that psychiatric patients had significantly higher obesity rates.
- Factors like childhood abuse and peer violence were identified as major contributors to increased BMI in individuals with mental illness, rather than the type of psychiatric diagnosis or medication used.
Article Abstract
Mental illness increases risk for obesity which is often attributed to medications. We assessed the impact of childhood maltreatment on body-mass-index (BMI) and obesity in N = 261 adult psychiatric inpatients and N = 81 controls. There was an increased risk for obesity in psychiatric inpatients compared to controls. Conditioned random forest regression revealed parental abuse at ages 4-5 and peer-related violence at 7-13 as crucial factors in BMI elevation among individuals with mental illness, while type of psychiatric diagnoses, and use of psychotropics were not. Recognizing this link may aid in understanding the mechanisms and the development of strategies to mitigate the risk.
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