ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2011
Depressive symptoms and change in abdominal obesity in the elderly: positive or negative association?
Article in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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- Sex Differences in Associations of Depressive Symptoms with Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Metabolic Syndrome among African Americans.Cardiovascular psychiatry and neurology · 2013Article
- [Depression and diabetes mellitus type 2].Der Nervenarzt · 2012Review
- Network Analysis of Depressive Symptomatology in Underweight and Obese Adults.Journal of primary care & community healthArticle
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Abstract
objectivesRecent evidence suggests that depression can result in abdominal obesity in the elderly. Few longitudinal studies are available and none has been conducted outside the United States.
methodsTo examine the relationship between depressive symptoms and abdominal obesity, data from 3,998 community-dwelling Chinese elderly men and women age 65 years and older with 4-year follow-up were analyzed. Depression was defined by a Geriatric Depression Scale score of 8 or higher. At baseline and after 4 years, overall obesity measures included body mass index, percentage of body fat, and general adiposity or body fat index (expressed by total body fat mass measured by DEXA (dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry) in kilograms divided by the square of stature in meters). Abdominal obesity measures included waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, and relative truncal fat (ratio of truncal fat mass to total fat mass measured by DEXA).
resultsAfter adjustment for sociodemographics, lifestyle, and medical factors, the presence of clinically relevant depressive symptoms at baseline was associated with significant decrease in waist circumference at follow-up after adjusting for sociodemographic factors, baseline obesity, lifestyle, and medical factors (β = -1.801, t = -2.93, df = 1564, p = 0.0034), although this relationship disappeared in older age women in further age-stratified analysis.
conclusionsThis study shows that depressive symptoms may result in a decrease in abdominal obesity, suggesting that more research is needed to further explore this relationship. Similar studies conducted in different cultural groups may help to explain these conflicting findings.
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