Prospective association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of depressive symptoms in the French SU.VI.MAX cohort

This robust French study (2018) examined whether adherence to the Mediterranean Diet (MD) was associated with incident depressive symptoms. The 3,523 participants taken from the SU.VI.MAX cohort had at least three dietary records at baseline during the first 2 years of follow-up, were free of depression at the start of the study, and had Centre for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) data at the end of the follow up. Incident depressive symptoms (defined by CES-D score ≥17 for men and ≥23 for women) were seen in 172 individuals during the follow-up and were found to be associated with adherence to the rMED score in men (OR=0.91, p=0.03) after adjustments for potential confounders were made. This current study provided additional scientific evidence for the benefits of Mediterranean diet on health, with findings indicating that higher adherence to the Mediterranean Diet at midlife was associated with fewer incidental cases of depressive symptoms, especially among men. [NPID: Mediterranean-style diet, Mediterranean diet, fish oil, depression, diet diversity, omega-3s, omega-6s, midlife]

Year: 2018

Reference: Adjibade, M., Assmann, K. E., Andreeva, V. A., Lemogne, C., Hercberg, S., Galan, P., & Kesse-Guyot, E. (2018). Prospective association between adherence to the Mediterranean diet and risk of depressive symptoms in the French SU.VI.MAX cohort. European journal of nutrition, 57(3), 1225–1235. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00394-017-1405-3

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