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The association between dietary pattern and depression in middle-aged Korean adults
The association between dietary patterns and depression
Park, Kim, and Lee (2019) selected participants from a subset of the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study to take part in this study investigating the association between dietary patterns and depression in middle-aged Koreans. Utilising the Korean version of the Beck Depression Inventory, participants who scored equal to or higher than16 were defined as having depression, while the subjects’ food intake over the year was determined using a validated semi-quantitative food frequency questionnaire. 448 of the 3,388 subjects in the study (13.2%) were identified as having depression. High consumption of vegetables, soybeans, mushrooms, seaweeds, white fish, shellfish, fruits and a low intake of white rice were characterised as the “healthy” dietary pattern, while the “unhealthy” dietary pattern was identified by high intakes of white rice, meats, ramen, noodles, bread, coffee and low consumption of rice with other grains. After adjusting for potential confounders, the subjects in the highest quartiles of the healthy dietary pattern had a significantly lower odds ratio of depression(OR=0.59, p = 0.0037) than those in the lowest quartiles. As well as this, the unhealthy dietary pattern was found to be negatively associated with depression (OR=1.65, p = 0.0021) among Korean adults. The study concluded that a healthy dietary pattern rich in mushrooms, soybeans, seaweeds, white fish, shellfish, vegetables, and fruit is associated with lower risk of depression while an unhealthy diet composed of ramen, meats, noodles, rice, bread and coffee is linked to the inverse. [NPID: Koreans, Korea, depression, vegetables, soybeans, mushrooms,seaweeds, whire fish, shellfish, white rice, ramen, meats, noodles, rice, bread, coffee]
Year: 2019
