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      Low serum HDL-cholesterol levels are associated with long symptom duration in patients with major depressive disorder.

      Psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
      Cholesterol, blood, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Depressive Disorder, Major, diagnosis, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Time Factors, Triglycerides

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          The purpose of the present study was to examine whether the association between depression and the serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) is modified by symptom duration. Depressed patients (n = 88) and an age- and sex-matched group of healthy general population controls (n = 88) underwent a Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV (SCID), and depressed participants reported the duration of their symptoms. The serum levels of total cholesterol (TC), HDL-C, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), triglycerides (TG) and non-HDL, and the ratios of LDL-C/HDL and TC/HDL-C were assessed. Major depressive disorder (MDD) subjects with a long symptom duration (>or=3 years) had lower levels of HDL-C compared with healthy controls or MDD subjects with a symptom duration <3 years. The likelihood for long symptom duration doubled for each 0.5-mmol/L decrease in HDL-C levels in regression models adjusted for age, gender, marital status, overweight, symptom severity, alcohol consumption, smoking, physical exercise, medication use, and non-HDL-C (P < 0.05). These findings suggest that a low serum HDL-C level, a risk factor for coronary heart disease, is specifically associated with long-term depressive symptomatology.

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          20374538
          10.1111/j.1440-1819.2010.02079.x

          Chemistry
          Cholesterol,blood,Cholesterol, HDL,Cholesterol, LDL,Depressive Disorder, Major,diagnosis,Female,Humans,Male,Middle Aged,Risk Factors,Time Factors,Triglycerides

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