The Association Between Obesity and Social Anxiety Disorder
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Abstract
Background \nObesity has been gradually increasing since 1980, it has been shown to have a variety of causes and impacts. Those who are obese are more likely to suffer from several diseases such as cancers and diabetes. \nCorrelations have been found between psychiatric disorders and obesity, yet specific disorders such as social anxiety disorder lack research. \nThis review looks at the relationship between obesity and social anxiety disorder, discusses why the association exists and provides recommendations. \nResults \nAs BMI increases so does the likelihood of suffering from Social Anxiety disorder in the United States and Canada in females in both lifetime and past year prevalence, no association was found for males. No association found in New Zealand. \nSeverely obese adolescents found to have higher rates of social anxiety disorder compared with healthy controls. Obese female adolescents correlation found, no correlation for males. Obese female adolescents have more intense social anxiety than male adolescents. \nWhite Caucasians stronger association than African Americans. \nRelationship with eating disorders may exist. \nResearch from Germany provided conflicting results. \nIn the Netherlands, no association between social anxiety disorder and weight gain/loss over two years. \n2 \nConclusion \nAssociation found with obesity and social stigma possibly resulting in social anxiety disorder with females being affected more. Evidence suggests social the stigma of obese adolescents results in social anxiety disorder lasting well-into adulthood along with their obesity. \nRecommendations \nConsider social stigmas impact on the obese population particularly in under 18s when planning interventions as it may result in social anxiety disorder which could be a barrier to the treatment of obesity. \nTherapist assisted internet cognitive behavioural therapy is recommended for social anxiety disorder; if psychotropic medicine is used, Bupropion is recommended. \nResearch recommendations included.
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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 | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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.
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