The association between sarcopenia and incident of depressive symptoms: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Epidemiological studies have shown that sarcopenia was associated with depression among older adults. However, most of these investigations used a cross-sectional design, limiting the ability to establish a causal relation, the present study examined whether sarcopenia was associated with incident depressive symptoms.

Methods

This is a prospective cohort study with participants from the Western China Health and Aging Trends (WCHAT) study. Participants could complete anthropometric measurements and questionnaires were included. The exposure was sarcopenia, defined according to the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia in 2019, the outcome was depressive symptoms, evaluated by GDS-15. We excluded depression and depressive symptoms at baseline and calculated the risk of

SUBMITTER: Li Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10797724 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature