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R A Bernstein

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PubMed1980

Medical and surgical consultations to a general hospital psychiatric unit.

This study reviews 563 medical and surgical consultations to a general hospital psychiatric unit over three years. In addition to an analysis of the consultations by service and month, consulted patients are compared with nonconsulted patients by age, sex, and diagnosis. Parallels are drawn to psychiatric consultations are reported in the consultation-liaison literature to medical and surgical patients. Two important findings from the present study are that depressed patients received significantly (P less than 0.01) fewer consultations than expected, and that 49% of one year's consultations were for active medical problems not related to the reason for psychiatric admission.

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Relationship of ovesity and disease in 73,532 weight-conscious women.

The relationship between obesity and 18 different disease conditions was examined in a cross-sectional study of 73,000 weight-conscious women (TOPS Club members). The women reported an average of 1.6 disease conditions each (based on their responses on a questionnaire). Age-specific rates of occurrence for the age group 30-49 years were calculated for each disease condition. The conditions that were found to be significantly (P smaller than 0.001) correlated with obesity were diabetes, high blood pressure, gallbladder disease, gout, thyroid disease, heart disease, arthritis, and jaundice. When the crude relative risks of obesity for each disease condition were calculated, diabetes was found to be the highest (4.5), high blood pressure was second (3.3), and gallbladder disease was third (2.7).

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