Body Weight, Obesity, and Suicide across the Life Course

International Handbook of Suicide Prevention: Research, Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 275-287

  Gunnell, David ^a   Thomas, Kyla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Association of body weight and obesity with suicide; Birth weight, BMI, and mental illness low birth weight, increased risk of depression; BMI suicide associations, chance, bias and confounding before considering causality; Body weight, as a risk factor for suicide unlikely to yield insights, into aetiology; Body weight, obesity and suicide across the life course; Hormones and metabolic pathways and obesity, beneficial effects on suicide risk; Low birth weight, and low body mass index (BMI) in adulthood, risk of suicide; Overweight or obese on overall health risk of cardiovascular disease; Public health relevance neurochemical pathways, needing further elucidation; US Male Health Professionals study inverse associations, reported between BMI at baseline and suicide

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886187273     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119998556.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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