English to French Medical Medical (general) obesity/medical

Depending on differences in sampling, diagnostic criteria, diagnostic coverage, age composition, and culture, numerous clinical studies demonstrate almost consistently up to 4.8 times higher prevalence rates of mental disorders (5) (6) as well as an elevated general psychopathology (7) (8) in obese patients compared with non-obese nonpatients. A major problem of studies with obese patients is the uncertainty of whether obesity or other factors contribute to a higher degree to the increased psychopathology (9) .