Prospective Changes in Healthy Lifestyle Among Midlife Women: When Psychological Symptoms Get in the Way.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Anxiety and depression are linked to increased risk of cardiometabolic disease and mortality, and unhealthy behaviors may be the key mechanisms underlying these associations. Although higher levels of psychological symptoms are associated with individual unhealthy behaviors (e.g., physical activity, smoking), their roles in overall lifestyle remain understudied.

Methods

Midlife women (n=55,395) from the cohort Nurses' Health Study reported anxiety and depression symptoms in 1988 and 1992, respectively. Health behaviors (i.e., physical inactivity, BMI, diet, and alcohol and tobacco consumption) were measured in self-administered questionnaires in 1988 or 1992, and every 4 years until the last assessment available (2010; follow-up, 18-22 years). Data were analyzed

SUBMITTER: Trudel-Fitzgerald C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4992620 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature