Abstract
Abstract In order to examine the relationship between cholesterol level on serum and depression in Korean adults, this study used data of the fourth Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (KNHANES). 834 persons with depressive symptoms were selected as an index group and 3,317 persons without depressive symptoms as a control group, and odds ratios were calculated by multivariate logistic regression. As a result, odds ratio of depressive symptoms was higher in low LDL group (OR=6.435, 95% CI; 2,358-17.557) than in high LDL group adjusted after monthly income, marital status, period of education, occupation, smoking status, and physical activity. Etiopathogenic mechanism must be found by convergent study in the future. Key Words : Cholesterol level, Depressive symptom, KNHANES, Odds ratio, Convergent study * 이 연구는 충남대학교 학술연구비(2014)에 의해 지원되었음 Received 23 February 2015, Revised 8 April 2015Accepted 20 May 2015Corresponding Author: Tae-Yong Lee (Dept. of Preventive Medicine, College of Medicine, Chungnam National University)Email: ttylee@cnu.ac.krⒸ The Society of Digital Policy & Management. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is ISSN: 1738-1916 properly cited.
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