Obesity among individuals with serious mental illness

Objective:  To study the distribution and correlates of body mass index (BMI) among individuals with serious mental illness. Method:  A total of 169 participants were recruited from randomly selected out‐patients receiving community‐based psychiatric care and were interviewed with items from the Nat...

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Published in:Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica 2006-04, Vol.113 (4), p.306-313
Main Authors: Dickerson, F. B., Brown, C. H., Kreyenbuhl, J. A., Fang, L., Goldberg, R. W., Wohlheiter, K., Dixon, L. B.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Aged
Biological and medical sciences
Body Mass Index
body weight
Drug Therapy - statistics & numerical data
Female
Humans
Male
Medical sciences
Mental disorders
Metabolic diseases
Middle Aged
mood disorders
Mood Disorders - diagnosis
Mood Disorders - drug therapy
Mood Disorders - epidemiology
Obesity
Obesity - diagnosis
Obesity - epidemiology
Prevalence
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Psychoses
Psychotropic Drugs - therapeutic use
Schizophrenia
Schizophrenia - diagnosis
Schizophrenia - drug therapy
Schizophrenia - epidemiology
Severity of Illness Index
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Summary:Objective:  To study the distribution and correlates of body mass index (BMI) among individuals with serious mental illness. Method:  A total of 169 participants were recruited from randomly selected out‐patients receiving community‐based psychiatric care and were interviewed with items from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III. Their BMI was compared with that of 2404 matched individuals from the NHANES data set. Results:  The distribution of BMI in the psychiatric sample significantly differed from that of the comparison group; 50% of women and 41% of men were obese compared with 27% and 20% in the comparison group. Within the psychiatric sample, higher BMI was associated with current hypertension and diabetes, a wish to weigh less, and reduced health‐related functioning. Conclusion:  Obesity is more prevalent among individuals with serious mental illness than in demographically matched individuals from the US general population. Among persons with mental illness, obesity is associated with co‐occurring health problems.
ISSN:0001-690X
1600-0447
DOI:10.1111/j.1600-0447.2005.00637.x