Childhood overweight and obesity and the risk of depression across the lifespan
BMC Pediatrics Jan 27, 2020
Gibson-Smith D, Halldorsson TI, Bot M, et al. - Experts aspired to explore if being overweight or obese at age 8 and 13 years was correlated with depressive symptoms more than 60 years later and if this relationship was independent of late-life BMI. In addition, they explored the connection of being overweight/obese at age 8 or 13 years with ever having major depressive disorder (lifetime MDD). In total, 889 people who had complete late-life Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) data and childhood BMI information available for either age 8 (n = 664) or age 13 (n = 711) from school record dating back to 1929–1947 have been involved. According to this longitudinal study, 101 patients had depressive symptoms at late-life (GDS ≥ 5), and 39 individuals had lifetime MDD. Findings revealed that being overweight in childhood has been linked to increased odds of lifetime MDD, though the magnitude of the risk is uncertain given the small numbers of participants with lifetime MDD. There was no clear connection between childhood and adolescent overweight/obesity and late-life depressive symptoms regardless of BMI in late life.
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