Prospective association between ultra-processed food consumption and incident depressive symptoms in the French NutriNet-Sante cohort.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Ultra-processed food (UPF) consumption has increased over the last decades in Westernized countries. Our objective was to investigate for the first time the association between the proportion of UPF (%UPF) in the diet and incident depressive symptoms in the NutriNet-Santé cohort.

Methods

The sample included 20,380 women and 6350 men (aged 18-86 years) without depressive symptoms at the first Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) measurement, using validated cut-offs (CES-D score ≥ 17 for men and ≥ 23 for women). The proportion of UPF in the diet was computed for each subject using the NOVA classification applied to dietary intakes collected by repeated 24-h records (mean = 8; SD = 2.3). The association between UPF and depressive symptoms was ev

SUBMITTER: Adjibade M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6463641 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature