The relationship between visceral adiposity and depressive symptoms in the general Korean population

In Korea, depressive symptoms or depression are prevalent psychiatric diseases. For depression, an annual point prevalence rate and a lifetime prevalence rate are 2.5% and 5.6% (Cho et al., 2010). Subsequently, the increasing prevalence of depression will raise the problem of disease burden over time (Cho et al. 2010; L épine and Briley, 2011). Many investigators consider depression or depressive symptoms as an output of another disease (Kim et al., 2015; Morrison et al., 2015; Phillips, 2011). The need for a more comprehensive analysis of depression has led investigators to record the evidences of associations be tween depression and more well-defined disease classifications, such as the general medical condition (Vaccarino et al., 2008; Windle and Windle, 2013).

Source: Journal of Affective Disorders - September 17, 2018 Category: Neurology Authors: Sung Joon Cho, Hyun Jeong Lee, Sang Jin Rhee, Eun Young Kim, Kyoung-Nam Kim, Dae Hyun Yoon, Yong Min Ahn Source Type: research