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Obesity associated with depression in women but not in men.
2003 OCT 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Obesity was associated with depression in women but not in men in a recent study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry.
"The prevalence of depression (10%) and overweight (65%) indicates that there is a probability that they will co-occur, but are they functionally related? This report used the moderator/mediator distinction to approach this question," scientists in the United States report.
"Moderators, such as severity of depression, severity of obesity, gender, socioeconomic status (SES), gene-by-environment interactions, and childhood experiences, specify for whom and under what conditions effects of agents occur," explained Albert J. Stunkard and colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania. "Mediators, such as eating and physical activity, teasing, disordered eating and stress, identify why and how they exert these effects. Major depression among adolescents predicted a greater body mass index (BMI=kg/m[superscript]2) in adult life than for persons who had not been depressed."
"Among women, obesity is related to major depression, and this relationship increases among those of high SES, while among men, there is an inverse relationship between depression and obesity, and there is no relationship with SES," reported Stunkard and his ...
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