Depressive symptoms and the incidence of adult-onset asthma in African American women.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Some evidence suggests that depression may increase the risk of adult-onset asthma. No data are available for African American women, in whom the prevalence of depression and asthma is high.

Objective

To conduct prospective analyses of the relation of depressive symptoms to asthma incidence in the Black Women's Health Study, a prospective cohort of US black women followed since 1995 with mailed biennial questionnaires.

Methods

Of 31,848 participants followed from 1999 to 2011, 771 reported incident asthma. Depressive symptoms were ascertained on 1999 and 2005 follow-up questionnaires with the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D). Participants rated the frequency of 20 symptoms. A score was calculated by summing the responses to all qu

SUBMITTER: Coogan PF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3972352 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature