Inflammatory dietary pattern and risk of depression among women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Inflammation is considered as a mechanism leading to depression, but the association between inflammatory dietary pattern and depression risk is unknown.

Methods

Using reduced-rank regression, we identified a dietary pattern that was related to plasma levels of inflammatory markers (C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor α receptor 2), and we conducted a prospective analysis of the relationship of this pattern and depression risk among participants in the Nurses' Health Study. A total of 43,685 women (aged 50-77) without depression at baseline (1996) were included and followed up until 2008. Diet information was obtained from food frequency questionnaires completed between 1984 through 2002 and computed as cumulative average of dietary intakes wi

SUBMITTER: Lucas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3947176 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature