Am J Psychiatry 1980; 137:470-472
Copyright © 1980 by American Psychiatric Association
Psychiatric diagnosis of morbidly obese gastric bypass patients
KA Halmi, M Long, AJ Stunkard and E Mason
Eighty morbidly obese patients who had had gastric bypass operations were
interviewed for psychiatric diagnoses using DSM-III criteria. The lifetime
prevalence of Axis I clinical psychiatric diagnoses was 47.5%, with
depressive disorders occurring in 28.7% of the total sample. No other
diagnosis exceeded a 2.5% prevalence. The authors believe there is no
evidence of an increased prevalence of major psychiatric disorder in obese
persons when strictly defined diagnostic criteria are used.
