RE: "MORTALITY AMONG CANADIAN WOMEN WITH COSMETIC BREAST IMPLANTS"
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The recent article by Villeneuve et al., which reported an increased suicide rate among women who received breast implants or other cosmetic surgery compared with the general population, is timely and important. Four previous studies have also reported increased suicide rates among women who received breast implants for augmentation purposes. The reasons for this association are unclear. As noted by Villeneuve et al., some studies found that women with breast implants who commit suicide are more likely to have had psychotherapy and more likely to have lower self-esteem and self-confidence, increased levels of depression, and an increased prevalence of mental illness as measured by psychiatric hospitalizations. We would like to raise the possibility that some of these women may have had body dysmorphic disorder (BDD). It is important that future studies consider BDD as a risk factor for suicide in women who receive breast implants or other cosmetic procedures. This may be challenging, however, as many patients with BDD do not disclose their symptoms, and BDD often goes undiagnosed. Epidemiologic studies that use existing medical records and databases will likely underreport BDD's prevalence and miss a potential link among BDD, receipt of breast implants, and suicide. Prospective, longitudinal studies in which BDD is specifically asked about and identified are needed to shed light on this important issue. Language: en
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".