The Challenging Task of Addressing the Role of Vitamin D in Late-life Depression: considerations of measures, confounders, mediators and moderators

The study by de Koning et  al.1 adds to a growing literature on the role of vitamin D in risk of depression among older adults.2 Specifically, with a large sample of nearly 2,000 well-characterized community-dwelling participants in the Longitudinal Aging Study Amsterdam, the study represents an important contribution to th e body of observational research evidence. Depression was examined longitudinally – as an outcome of depressive mood symptoms – allowing for both cross-sectional and prospective analyses.
Source: The American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry - Category: Geriatrics Authors: Tags: Invited Perspective Source Type: research