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| Dietary pattern and depressive symptoms in middle age | | Author(s) | Tasnime N Akbaraly, Eric J Brunner, Jane E Ferrie |
| Journal title | British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 195, no 5, November 2009 |
| Pages | pp 408-413 |
| Source | http://bjp.rcpsych.org |
| Keywords | Diet ; Depression ; Symptoms ; Middle aged ; Civil servants ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | Previous studies of diet and depression have focused primarily on individual nutrients. Using an overall diet approach, the association between dietary patterns and depression was examined. Analyses were carried out on data from 3486 participants (26.2% women, mean age 55.6) from the Whitehall II prospective cohort, in which two dietary patterns were identified: whole food (heavily loaded by vegetables, fruits and fish) and "processed" food (heavily loaded with sweetened desserts, fried food, processed meat, refined grains and high-fat dairy products). Self-reported depression was assessed 5 years later using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression (CES-D) scale. After adjusting for potential confounders, participants in the highest tertile of the whole food pattern had lower odds of CES-D depression than those in the lowest tertile. In contrast, high consumption of processed food was associated with an increased odd of CES-D depression. In middle-age participants, a processed food dietary pattern is a risk factor for CES-D depression 5 years later, whereas a whole food pattern is protective. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-091110204 A |
| Classmark | CFD: ENR: CT: SE: XM8: 3J |
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