ArticleThe Journal of nutrition2016
Alternative Pathway Analyses Indicate Bidirectional Relations between Depressive Symptoms, Diet Quality, and Central Adiposity in a Sample of Urban US Adults.
Article in The Journal of nutrition, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.
- Nutrition-sensitive agriculture programme impacts women's mental health via food security in rural Bangladesh.BMJ global health · 2026Trial
- Brain and behavioral correlates of insulin resistance in youth with depression and obesity.Hormones and behavior · 2019Trial
- Life's simple 7 and its association with trajectories in depressive symptoms among urban middle-aged adults.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Article
- Varying levels of depressive symptoms and lifestyle health behaviors in a low income, urban population.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2021Article
- Alternate Healthy Eating Index is Positively Associated with Cognitive Function Among Middle-Aged and Older Hispanics/Latinos in the HCHS/SOL.The Journal of nutrition · 2020Article
- Article
- Allostatic load in the association of depressive symptoms with incident coronary heart disease: The Jackson Heart Study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2019Article
- Association between epigenetic age acceleration and depressive symptoms in a prospective cohort study of urban-dwelling adults.Journal of affective disorders · 2019Article
- Dietary factors are associated with serum uric acid trajectory differentially by race among urban adults.The British journal of nutrition · 2018Article
- Evidence of acculturation's impact on dietary quality among non-Hispanic blacks.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
8 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundTemporality between socioeconomic status (SES), depressive symptoms (DS), dietary quality (DQ), and central adiposity (CA) is underexplored.
objectivesAlternative pathways linking SES to DQ, DS, and CA were tested and models compared, stratified by race and sex.
methodsWith the use of data from the Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (baseline age: 30-64 y; 2 visits; mean follow-up: 4.9 y), 12 structural equation models (SM) were conducted and compared. Time-dependent factors included the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression [CES-D total score, baseline or visit 1 (v1), follow-up or visit 2 (v2), mean across visits (m), and annual rate of change (Δ)], 2010 Healthy Eating Index (HEI) (same notation), and central adiposity principal components' analysis score of waist circumference and trunk fat (kg) (Adipcent) (same notation). Sample sizes were white women (WW, n = 236), white men (WM, n = 159), African American women (AAW, n = 395), and African American men (AAM, n = 274), and a multigroup analysis within the SM framework was also conducted.
resultsIn the best-fitting model, overall, ∼31% of the total effect of SES→Adipcent(v2) (α ± SE: -0.10 ± 0.03, P < 0.05) was mediated through a combination of CES-D(v1) and ΔHEI. Two dominant pathways contributed to the indirect effect: SES→(-)CES-D(v1)→(+)Adipcent(v2) (-0.015) and SES→(+) ΔHEI→(-)Adipcent(v2) (-0.017), with a total indirect effect of -0.031 (P < 0.05). In a second best-fitting model, SES independently predicted Adipcent(v1, -0.069), ΔHEI(+0.037) and CES-D(v2, -2.70) (P < 0.05), with Adipcent(v1) marginally predicting ΔHEI(-0.014) and CES-D(v2, +0.67) (P < 0.10). These findings were indicative of DS's and CA's marginally significant bidirectional association (P < 0.10). Although best-fit-selected models were consistent across race × sex categories, path coefficients differed significantly between groups. Specifically, SES→Adipcent[v1(+0.11), v2(+0.14)] was positive among AAM (P < 0.05), and the overall positive association of Adipcent(v1)→CES-D(v2) was specific to AAW (+0.97, P < 0.10).
conclusionsDespite consistent model fit, pathways linking SES to DQ, DS, and CA differed markedly among the race × sex groups. Our findings can inform the potential effectiveness of various mental health and dietary interventions.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.