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Depressive Symptom Clusters Are Differentially Associated with General and Visceral Obesity
- Source :
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. 59:67-72
- Publication Year :
- 2011
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2011.
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Abstract
- OBJECTIVES: To examine the relationship between obesity and depressive symptoms taking into account different measures for obesity (body mass index (BMI), waist circumference (WC), and waist-to-hip ratio (WHR)) and different depressive symptom clusters. DESIGN: Cross-sectional population-based survey. SETTING: Baseline data of the Nijmegen Biomedical Study. PARTICIPANTS: One thousand two hundred eighty-four persons aged 50 to 70. MEASUREMENTS: Obesity (BMI, WC, and WHR) and depressive symptoms were measured, the latter using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI). Principal components analysis of the BDI items yielded two factors, one representing a cognitive-affective symptom cluster and the other a somatic-affective symptom cluster. Multiple regression analyses corrected for confounders were conducted for each measure of obesity, with separate models testing the BDI sum score and the depression symptom clusters. RESULTS: BMI was significantly associated with BDI sum score (beta=0.12, P
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education.field_of_study
Waist
business.industry
Population
Confounding
Beck Depression Inventory
medicine.disease
Obesity
Internal medicine
Medicine
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
education
Psychiatry
Body mass index
Depression (differential diagnoses)
Subclinical infection
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Details
- ISSN :
- 00028614
- Volume :
- 59
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........434f57a9ad1d0149dd012c46f2d24994