ArticleNutritional neuroscience2024
Association between ultra-processed foods and recurrence of depressive symptoms: the Whitehall II cohort study.
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- Neurobiological insights into the effects of ultra-processed food on lipid metabolism and associated mental health conditions: a scoping review.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- The risk associated with ultra-processed food intake on depressive symptoms and mental health in older adults: a target trial emulation.BMC medicine · 2025Trial
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- Exposure to Global Burden of Disease dietary factors and risk of recurrent depressive symptoms: the prospective Whitehall II cohort study.European journal of nutrition · 2026Article
- Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Mental Health and Sleep Quality in Turkish Adults: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Integrated metabolomics and genetic analyses reveal loss of protective docosahexaenoic acid as a key driver linking ultra-processed food to Crohn's disease risk.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Understanding the Variability of Associations Between Higher Ultra-Processed Food Consumption and Self-Reported Depression Severity: A Systematic Review of Epidemiological Studies.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Ready-to-eat food intake associates with PHQ-9-based depression in US adults: a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Ten-year trajectories of ultra-processed food intake and prospective associations with cardiovascular diseases and all-cause mortality: findings from the Whitehall II cohort study.Nutrition journal · 2025Article
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- Estimating the Burden of Common Mental Disorders Attributable to Lifestyle Factors: Protocol for the Global Burden of Disease Lifestyle and Mental Disorder (GLAD) Project.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Adherence to MIND Diet and Risk of Recurrent Depressive Symptoms: Prospective Whitehall II Cohort Study.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Common mental disorders in Brazilian adolescents: association with school characteristics, consumption of ultra-processed foods and waist-to-height ratio.Cadernos de saude publica · 2024Article
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objectivesTo examine the association between high intakes of ultra-processed foods (UPF) and recurrence of depressive symptoms (DepS) in a Western non-Mediterranean country and its contribution to the overall diet-depression relationship.
methodsAnalyses were carried out on British participants from the Whitehall II cohort. Present analyses were restricted to white participants
resultsOver the follow-up, 588 (12.9%) cases of recurrent DepS were observed. After adjusting for socio-demographic factors, health behaviours and health status, participants in top quintile of UPF intakes [mean 33% of total daily intakes in grams] had 31% higher odds of recurrent DepS (odds ratio 1.31; 95% CI 1.04-1.64) compared to participants in the four lowest quintiles of UPF [mean 18.1% of total daily intakes in grams]. Additional analyses showed that associations between adherence to several diet quality measures and recurrent DepS were partially attenuated (17-27%) by UPF intakes.
conclusionIn this British population, high intakes of ultra-processed foods were associated with increased odds of recurrent depressive symptoms and contributed to the overall diet quality-depressive symptoms association.
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