Diet, Sleep, and Mental Health: Insights from the UK Biobank Study.

ABSTRACT: Diet has long been the focus of attention as a leading risk factor for non-communicable diseases. As such, a better understanding of it is crucial to establish priorities for dietary guidelines and to inform, design, and implement strategies for preventing, helping manage, and stopping the progression of sleep and mental health-related symptoms/disorders. The aim of the current study is to conduct the largest investigation of diet, sleep, and mental health to date by utilizing the UK Biobank (UKB) dataset to identify the associations between diet and (i) sleep quality/health, and (ii) mental health symptomatology. This cross-sectional population-based study involved 502,494 middle-aged adults. UKB food frequency, sleep, and psychological factors and mental health questionnaires at baseline

SUBMITTER: Hepsomali P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8398967 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature