The association between sarcopenia and incident of depressive symptoms : a prospective cohort study

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BACKGROUND: Epidemiological studies have shown that sarcopenia was associated with depression among older adults. However, most of these investigations used a cross-sectional design, limiting the ability to establish a causal relation, the present study examined whether sarcopenia was associated with incident depressive symptoms.

METHODS: This is a prospective cohort study with participants from the Western China Health and Aging Trends (WCHAT) study. Participants could complete anthropometric measurements and questionnaires were included. The exposure was sarcopenia, defined according to the Asian Working Group for Sarcopenia in 2019, the outcome was depressive symptoms, evaluated by GDS-15. We excluded depression and depressive symptoms at baseline and calculated the risk of incident depressive symptoms during the follow-up year.

RESULTS: A total of 2612 participants (mean age of 62.14 ± 8.08 years) were included, of which 493 with sarcopenia. 78 (15.82%) participants with sarcopenia had onset depressive symptoms within the next year. After multivariable adjustment, sarcopenia increased the risk of depressive symptoms (RR = 1.651, 95%CI = 1.087-2.507, P = 0.0187) in overall participants. Such relationship still exists in gender and sarcopenia severity subgroups. Low muscle mass increased the risk of depressive symptoms (RR = 1.600, 95%CI = 1.150-2.228, P = 0.0053), but low muscle strength had no effect (RR = 1.250, 95%CI = 0.946-1.653, P = 0.117).

CONCLUSIONS: Sarcopenia is an independent risk factor for depressive symptoms, Precautions to early detect and targeted intervene for sarcopenia should continue to be employed in adult with sarcopenia to achieve early prevention for depression and reduce the incidence of adverse clinical outcomes.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:24

Enthalten in:

BMC geriatrics - 24(2024), 1 vom: 18. Jan., Seite 74

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Li, Zhenzhen [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Bingqing [VerfasserIn]
Tong, Xiang [VerfasserIn]
Ma, Yao [VerfasserIn]
Bao, Ting [VerfasserIn]
Yue, Jirong [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Chenkai [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Depression
Depressive symptoms
Journal Article
Low muscle mass
Low muscle strength
Sarcopenia

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Date Completed 22.01.2024

Date Revised 22.01.2024

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1186/s12877-023-04653-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM367291703