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Suicide Risk High Among Those Who Had Undergone Breast Implantation: Study
As a part of the study, lead researcher Dr. Loren Lipworth and colleagues performed an extended follow-up study of 3,527 Swedish women who underwent cosmetic breast implant surgery between 1965 and 1993.
They then used the death certificate data to analyze causes of death among women with breast implants, compared to the general female population.
They found that the long-term risk of suicide is tripled for women who have undergone cosmetic breast implant surgery. The risk was greatestnearly seven times higherfor women who received their breast implants at age 45 or older. (The average age at breast implant surgery was 32 years.)
Suicide risk was not significantly increased for the first ten years after implant surgery. After that, however, suicide risk increased with time since surgeryrisk was 4.5 times higher from 10 to 19 years' follow-up, and six times higher after 20 years.
The researchers also noted that women with breast implants also had higher rates of death from psychiatric disorders, including a three-fold increase in deaths resulting from alcohol and drug dependence.
Several additional deaths, classified as accidents or injuries, might have been suicides or involved psychiatric disorders or drug/alcohol abuse as a contributing cause.
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