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ReviewCurrent obesity reports2018

Bipolar Disorder and Obesity: Contributing Factors, Impact on Clinical Course, and the Role of Bariatric Surgery.

Noreen A Reilly-Harrington, Emily H Feig, Jeff C Huffman

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Review in Current obesity reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.3field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Somatic morbidity in bipolar disorders.International journal of bipolar disorders · 2026
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  3. ASSOCIATION BETWEEN AFFECTIVE TEMPERAMENT AND MORBID OBESITY IN BARIATRIC SURGERY CANDIDATES: A CASE-CONTROL STUDY.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2025
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  10. Body Mass Index and Somatic Symptom Severity in Patients with Somatic Symptom Disorder: The Mediating Role of Working Memory.Clinical psychopharmacology and neuroscience : the official scientific journal of the Korean College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Noreen A Reilly-HarringtonMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA. Nharrington11@mgh.harvard.edu.
Emily H FeigMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Jeff C HuffmanMassachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 50 Staniford Street, 4th Floor, Boston, MA, 02114, USA.
Harvard University · USMassachusetts General Hospital · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purpose of reviewBipolar disorder (BD) is a severe, common, and chronic affective disorder. This review highlights the BD and obesity connection and the role of treatments for obesity in this population. RECENT

findingsPatients with BD are at a significantly increased risk for obesity, as compared to those without BD, with obesity serving as a proxy for severity and predictor of poorer outcome. BD is characterized by substantial medical burden, with obesity-related conditions contributing to premature mortality. Pharmacotherapy for BD can cause weight gain and may be moderated by binge eating behavior. Bariatric surgery may be the most robust intervention for weight loss in patients with stable BD, but access may be limited. There is a greater need for interventions to prevent weight gain in BD, the development weight-neutral medications for BD, and more research into the role of bariatric surgery for patients with BD.

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Bariatric SurgeryBipolar DisorderObesityAntipsychotic AgentsComorbidityFeeding and Eating DisordersHumansAntipsychotic AgentsBariatric surgeryBinge eating disorderBipolar disorderComorbidityMedical burdenMedicationsObesityPharmacotherapyPsychotropic weight gain

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PMID30368736
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