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Common mental disorder and obesity: insight from four repeat measures over 19 years: prospective Whitehall II cohort study
British Medical Journal, 10/28/09

Kivimaki M et al. – These findings suggest that in British adults the direction of association between common mental disorders and obesity is from common mental disorder to increased future risk of obesity. This association is cumulative such that people with chronic or repeat episodes of common mental disorder are particularly at risk of weight gain.