ArticleFrontiers in psychology2017
Emotional Support, Depressive Symptoms, and Age-Related Alterations in Male Body Composition: Cross-Sectional Findings from the Men's Health 40+ Study.
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- The relationship between living arrangements and depression among older adults in Shandong, China: The mediating role of social support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Social Relatedness and Physical Health Are More Strongly Related in Older Than Younger Adults: Findings from the Korean Adult Longitudinal Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
- Commentary: Physical Functional Capacity and C-Reactive Protein in Schizophrenia.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2018Article
- Commentary: Sex Differences in the Peripheral Immune System in Patients with Depression.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Article
- Bipolar Spectrum Disorders in Male Youth: The Interplay between Symptom Severity, Inflammation, Steroid Secretion, and Body Composition.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2017Review
- Emotions and Steroid Secretion in Aging Men: A Multi-Study Report.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Pain-sensorimotor interactions: New perspectives and a new model.Neurobiology of pain (Cambridge, Mass.)Review
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Abstract
More depressive symptoms and low emotional support have been related to worse body composition. Body composition significantly deteriorates in aging men. Therefore, we aimed to examine whether high emotional support and low depressive symptoms are associated with better body composition and a decelerated age-related deterioration of body composition in aging men. A cross-sectional analysis including 269 self-reporting healthy men aged between 40 and 75 years living in the German-speaking part of Switzerland was conducted. Participants completed questionnaires on emotional support and depressive symptoms. The depression screening instrument was used to form a group with low (
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