Imagine how bad #Ozempic must be for you to have your deepest desire fulfilled only to be haunted with 3x more thoughts of suicide.
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Flip it, imagine how focused some people are on body image to willingly take a drug with such severe side effects. Health is wealth, don’t succumb to big pharma wanting us perpetually on their drugs
it seems that you have a poor understanding of the massive negative health effects of obesity
people will go through a lot to avoid 3x per week blood filtering because of kidney failure, loss of semsation in their extremities, blindness, and heart failure.
you should go hang out with some morbidly obese folks and see what's up
always a catch when it comes to shortcuts.
So fucking sad.
take it with a grain of salt.
- It's a retrospective cohort analysis, so it's inherently subject to selection bias.
- They exclusively used diagnostic codes for data collection. Docs tack on psych diagnostic codes willy-nilly.
- They excluded patients with a diagnosis of any psychiatric diseases within one year before or one month after the start of glp1-i. But they didn't screen for patients who were new to the healthcare system (i.e. hadn't had a chance to be diagnosed)
- They didn't assess if the side effects of the drugs contribute to the occurrence of depressive episodes.
- There is no data on change in BMI during the follow-up period--if the drug isn't working for a patient, they're more likely to become depressed
- Lastly, the study lacks data for patient compliance with the treatments. People prescribed a drug that should help them but find themselves unable to take it are at higher risk for depression / lack of hope
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