White blood cell inflammatory markers are associated with depressive symptoms in a longitudinal study of urban adults

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2016, Pages

  Beydoun, M A ^a   Beydoun, H A ^b   Dore, G A ^a   Canas, J A ^c   Fanelli Kuczmarski, M T ^d   Evans, M K ^a   Zonderman, A B ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^c Nemour's Children's Clinic   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CAUSALITY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LYMPHOCYTE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; PSYCHOSOMATIC DISORDER; URBAN POPULATION; CYTOLOGY; FACTUAL DATABASE; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LINEAR MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUTROPHILS; SEX FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 85015420160     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2016.180     Document Type: Article

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