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Medicina Legal de Costa Rica
On-line version ISSN 2215-5287Print version ISSN 1409-0015
Abstract
ROJAS NUNEZ, Karolina. Riesgo de Suicidio Posterior a una Cirugía Bariátrica. Med. leg. Costa Rica [online]. 2016, vol.33, n.1, pp.139-144. ISSN 2215-5287.
Obesity is a cronic disease which has increased in the last decades, and with it, new treatments for weigth loss like the bariatric surgery. There is evidence of increase risk of self-harm and suicide in patients with bariatric surgery, which draws attention to the diagnosis of psychiatric pathology in this patients.
Keywords : Bariatic surgery; psychiatric disorder; suicide; self harm; obesity..