Self-study
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Summary
Most antidepressant drugs cause weight gain. Dieting may help lower the amount of weight gained while taking antidepressants. Despite dieting, some weight gain is unlikely to be preventable.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Most antidepressant drugs will cause some unpreventable weight gain.
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a
A physician should ███ █████████ ███ ██████████████ ████ ███ █ ███████ ██ ████ ███████ ██ ███████████
This is unsupported because the stimulus gives us no information to answer the value statement of whether physicians should or should not prescribe antidepressants in a given circumstance.
b
People who are ██████ ██ ████ ██████ ██████ ███ ███ █████ ███████ ███ ██ ██████████████ █████
This is unsupported because the stimulus cannot help us answer the value statement of whether patients should value weight loss over however they benefit from an antidepressant drug.
c
At least some ████████ ██████ ██████████████ █████ ████ ██████ ██ █ ██████ ██ ██████ █████
This is strongly supported because we know that most antidepressant drugs will cause at least some unpreventable weight gain.
d
The weight gain ███████████ ██ ████████ ██████ ██████████████ █████ ██████ ██ ██████████ ██ ████ ██ ████████
This is anti-supported because the stimulus states that weight gain will occur regardless of dieting.
e
All patients taking ██████████████ █████ ██████ ████ ██ ████████ █████ ███████
This is unsupported because while we know that most antidepressant drugs can cause some weight gain, we don’t know that all patients on any antidepressant drugs will have weight gain. Further, we don’t know that dieting would be of any help.