Associations between healthy Japanese dietary patterns and depression in Japanese women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Higher quality dietary patterns such as healthy/prudent and Mediterranean dietary patterns have been protectively associated with depression. This study examined whether healthy Japanese dietary patterns, which differ from dietary patterns derived from Western areas, are associated with depressive symptoms among Japanese women.

Design

A cross-sectional study (the Nagano Nutrition and Health Study). Depressive symptoms were assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. Dietary patterns were derived with a principal component analysis of the consumption of fifty-six food and beverage items, which were assessed by a validated brief diet history questionnaire.

Setting

Nagano, Japan.

Participants

Japanese women (n 1337) aged 20-72 y

SUBMITTER: Konishi K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10195494 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature