Depressive symptom clusters are differentially associated with general and visceral obesity

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 67-72

  Marijnissen, Radboud M ^a,b   Bus, Boudewijn A A ^b   Holewijn, Suzanne ^b   Franke, Barbara ^b   Purandare, Nitin ^b   De Graaf, Jacqueline ^b   Den Heijer, Martin ^b   Buitelaar, Jan K ^c   Oude Voshaar, Richard C ^b,d  

^a De Gelderse Roos ^*  (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aged; body mass index (BMI); depression; obesity; waist circumference (WC)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BECK DEPRESSION INVENTORY; BODY MASS; COGNITION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOOD; OBESITY; PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; VASCULAR DISEASE; VISCERAL OBESITY; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST HIP RATIO;

AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; OBESITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WAIST-HIP RATIO;

EID: 78651411873     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03228.x     Document Type: Article

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