Predictive Association of Smoking with Depressive Symptoms: a Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Twins.

ABSTRACT: Longitudinal, genetically informative studies of the association between cigarette smoking and depressive symptoms among adolescents are limited. We examined the longitudinal association of cigarette smoking with subsequent depressive symptoms during adolescence in a Finnish twin cohort. We used prospective data from the population-based FinnTwin12 study (maximum N = 4152 individuals, 1910 twin pairs). Current smoking status and a number of lifetime cigarettes smoked were assessed at the age of 14 and depressive symptoms at the age of 17. Negative binomial regression was conducted to model the association between smoking behavior and subsequent depressive symptoms among individuals, and within-pair analyses were conducted to control for unmeasured familial confounding. Analyses were adjust

SUBMITTER: Ranjit A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6718365 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature