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      Risk of future depression in people who are obese but metabolically healthy: The English Longitudinal Study of Ageing

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          There is some evidence to suggest that obesity is a risk factor for the development of depression, although this is not a universal finding. This discordance might be ascribed to the existence of a ‘healthy obese phenotype’– that is, obesity in the absence of the associated burden of cardio-metabolic risk factors. We examined whether the association of obesity with depressive symptoms is dependent on the individual’s metabolic health. Participants were 3851 men and women (aged 63.0 ± 8.9 yrs, 45.1% men) from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, a prospective study of community dwelling older adults. Obesity was defined as body mass index ≥ 30 kg/m 2. Based on blood pressure, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, glycated haemoglobin, and C-reactive protein, participants were classified as ‘metabolically healthy’ (0 or 1 metabolic abnormality) or ‘unhealthy’ (≥ 2 metabolic abnormalities). Depressive symptoms were assessed at baseline and at 2 years follow up using the 8-item Centre of Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES-D) scale. Obesity prevalence was 27.5%, but 34.3% of this group was categorized as metabolically healthy at baseline. Relative to non-obese healthy participants, after adjustment for baseline CES-D score and other covariates, the metabolically unhealthy obese participants had elevated risk of depressive symptoms at follow-up (odds ratio [OR] = 1.50, 95% CI, 1.05–2.15), although the metabolically healthy obese did not (OR = 1.38, 95% CI, 0.88–2.17). The association between obesity and risk of depressive symptoms appears to be partly dependent on metabolic health, although further work is required to confirm these findings.

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                Journal
                9607835
                20545
                Mol Psychiatry
                Mol. Psychiatry
                Molecular psychiatry
                1359-4184
                1476-5578
                13 April 2012
                24 April 2012
                September 2012
                01 March 2013
                : 17
                : 9
                : 940-945
                Affiliations
                Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UK
                Author notes
                Correspondence to: Mark Hamer, PhD, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, 1-19 Torrington Place, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK. m.hamer@ 123456ucl.ac.uk ; phone: +44 207 6795969
                Article
                NIHMS363513
                10.1038/mp.2012.30
                3428506
                22525487
                cf94577e-b0cf-4edf-b114-15932e165ecb

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                Funded by: National Institute on Aging : NIA
                Award ID: R01 AG017644-01A1 || AG
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