Analysis of the Effects of Nutrient Intake and Dietary Habits on Depression in Korean Adults.

Hyeonseo Yun,Dong-Wook Kim,Jinmyung Jung,Sunyong Yoo,Eun-Joo Lee

doi:10.3390/nu13041360

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Abstract

While several studies have explored nutrient intake and dietary habits associated with depression, few studies have reflected recent trends and demographic factors. Therefore, we examined how nutrient intake and eating habits are associated with depression, according to gender and age. We performed simple and multiple regressions using nationally representative samples of 10,106 subjects from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. The results indicated that cholesterol, dietary fiber, sodium, frequency of breakfast, lunch, dinner, and eating out were significantly associated with depression (p-value < 0.05). Moreover, depression was associated with nutrient intake and dietary habits by gender and age group: sugar, breakfast, lunch, and eating out frequency in the young women’s group; sodium and lunch frequency among middle-age men; dietary fibers, breakfast, and eating out frequency among middle-age women; energy, moisture, carbohydrate, lunch, and dinner frequency in late middle-age men; breakfast and lunch frequency among late middle-age women; vitamin A, carotene, lunch, and eating out frequency among older age men; and fat, saturated fatty acids, omega-3 fatty acid, omega-6 fatty acid, and eating out frequency among the older age women’s group (p-value < 0.05). This study can be used to establish dietary strategies for depression prevention, considering gender and age.

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Depression is a common and serious mental disorder that affects over 264 million people of all ages worldwide [1]
The results show that all nutrient intakes except iron were statistically significant
Moisture, protein, fat, saturated fatty acids, monounsaturated fatty acids, polyunsaturated fatty acid, omega-3 fatty acids, omega-6 fatty acids, cholesterol, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, calcium, phosphorus, sodium, potassium, vitamin A, carotene, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin B3, and vitamin C were statistically significant (p-value < 0.05)

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Depression is a common and serious mental disorder that affects over 264 million people of all ages worldwide [1]. It continues to attract attention as a cause of many emotional and physical problems. According to the survey by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Korea, the number of depressed patients of all age groups was 680,169 in 2017, 751,930 in 2018, and. These numbers are increasing every year, which is a serious social problem. As depression is a direct and indirect cause of other diseases and suicide, it requires timely treatment [3,4,5,6,7]. It is necessary to identify various factors related to depression, and establish measures to prevent and manage depression in advance

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