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Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D concentrations and depressive symptoms among young adult men and women.
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- Severe Vitamin D Deficiency-A Possible Cause of Resistance to Treatment in Psychiatric Pathology.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2023Pooled it
- Measurement properties of tools used to assess depression in adults with and without autism spectrum conditions: A systematic review.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2018Pooled it
- Non-skeletal health effects of vitamin D supplementation: A systematic review on findings from meta-analyses summarizing trial data.PloS one · 2017Pooled it
- The effect of vitamin D supplementation on serum total 25(OH) levels and biochemical markers of skeletal muscles in runners.Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition · 2020Trial
- Association Between Low Vitamin D Levels and Depression: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cureus · 2026Review
- Association between serum vitamin D and depression among non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.Asia Pacific journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Article
- The relationships of serum vitamin D concentration with linear speed and change of direction performance in soccer players.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Diet, physical activity, and UV protection comprehensively influenced vitamin D status in college students: a cross-section study from China.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2023Article
- The Mediation Effect of Peripheral Biomarkers of Calcium Metabolism and Chronotypes in Bipolar Disorder Psychopathology.Metabolites · 2022Article
- Relationship between serum 25 hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) levels and mental health in shift female nurses.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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- Depression in Collegiate Runners and Soccer Players: Relationships with Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Ferritin, and Fractures.International journal of exercise science · 2021Article
- Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations Are Associated with Mental Health and Psychosocial Stress in Young Adults.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Patterns of Vitamin D Deficiency in a Community Outpatient Psychiatric Practice: a Real-World Evaluation of Treatment Gaps.The Psychiatric quarterly · 2020Article
- Association of antepartum vitamin D deficiency with postpartum depression: a clinical perspective.Public health nutrition · 2020Review
- Impact of seasons on stroke-related depression, mediated by vitamin D status.BMC psychiatry · 2018Article
- Micronutrient intake adequacy and depression risk in the SUN cohort study.European journal of nutrition · 2018Article
- Database Analysis of Depression and Anxiety in a Community Sample-Response to a Micronutrient Intervention.Nutrients · 2018Article
- Effect of vitamin D supplementation on depressive symptoms and psychological wellbeing in healthy adult women: a double-blind randomised controlled clinical trial.Journal of nutritional science · 2018Article
- Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D Concentrations and Indicators of Mental Health: An Analysis of the Canadian Health Measures Survey.Nutrients · 2017Article
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Abstract
There has been an increased interest in the role of vitamin D in depression; however, there have been few studies conducted in younger population groups. Our aim was to investigate the association between vitamin D status and depressive symptoms in a non-clinical young adult sample living in Dunedin, New Zealand. A cross-sectional sample of 615 young adults completed a questionnaire including demographics and the Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Height, weight and a blood sample for 25-hydroxyvitamin D [25(OH)D] was obtained. Serum 25(OH)D was used to predict depression scores, adjusting for potential confounders including time spent outdoors for 13 consecutive days, BMI, age, sex and ethnicity. Prevalence of low vitamin D was high even in this age group, and serum 25(OH)D was negatively associated with depression symptoms before and after adjustment. When investigating the relationship between the presence versus absence of depressive symptoms and quartiles of 25(OH)D, participants in the lowest quartile were more likely to report depressive symptoms compared with those in the highest quartile. Although our findings suggest that vitamin D is a predictor of depression symptomatology, even when controlling for time spent outdoors, a randomised controlled trial in this young adult target group is needed to confirm the association.
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