The Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Waist Circumference Among Normal-Weight Individuals in the Peruvian Population: A 3-Year Pooled Cross-Sectional Study.

Autor: Saavedra-Garcia L; Grupo de Investigación en Nutrición Funcional, Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru., Moscoso-Porras M; Escuela de Medicina Humana, Universidad Continental, Huancayo, Peru., Benites-Castillo Y; Grupo de Investigación en Nutrición Funcional, Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru., German-Montejo L; Grupo de Investigación en Nutrición Funcional, Carrera de Nutrición y Dietética, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, Lima, Peru., Diaz-Valencia PA; Grupo de Epidemiología, Facultad Nacional de Salud Pública, Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia., Barengo NC; Department of Medical Education, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA.; Escuela Superior de Medicina, Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Mar del Plata, Argentina., von Harscher H; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA., Guerra Valencia J; Universidad Científica del Sur, Lima, Peru.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council [Am J Hum Biol] 2024 Dec 02, pp. e24194. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Dec 02.
DOI: 10.1002/ajhb.24194
Abstrakt: Introduction: Limited information is available on the association between depressive symptoms and waist circumference (WC) in individuals with normal weight. This study aimed to analyze the association between depressive symptoms and WC among individuals aged 18 years or older with normal weight in the Peruvian population between 2019 and 2021.
Methods: Analytical cross-sectional study. Data from the Peruvian Demographic and Health Survey (2019-2021) were analyzed. The sample consisted of 26 933 participants. The outcome variable was WC. The exposure variables included the overall Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score and severity of depressive symptoms. Generalized linear models of the Gaussian family estimated the effects with β coefficients for the associations between WC and depressive symptoms stratified by age and sex.
Results: A significant inverse association was observed between depressive symptoms and WC in young (< 35 years) individuals of both sexes. In young males, a dose-response relationship emerged, with greater severity of depressive symptoms associated with progressively lower WC. Specifically, inverse associations were found for moderate (β = -1.74, 95% CI: -3.25 to -0.23), moderately severe (β = -2.81, 95% CI: -4.71 to -0.91), and severe (β = -2.75, 95% CI: -5.11 to -0.40) depressive symptoms.
Conclusions: Among young individuals of both sexes with a normal weight, depressive symptoms were inversely associated with WC. These findings underscore the need for nuanced considerations of age and sex when exploring the interplay of depression and abdominal adiposity in individuals with normal weight.
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Databáze: MEDLINE
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