Depressive symptoms and body mass index: Co-morbidity and direction of association in a British birth cohort followed over 50 years

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 2641-2652

  Geoffroy, M C ^a,b   Li, L ^a   Power, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Body mass index; depression; depressive symptoms; epidemiology; life course; obesity; underweight

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK; UNITED KINGDOM; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; RISK; SCOTLAND; THINNESS; WALES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84904958460     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291714000142     Document Type: Article

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