Metabolic syndrome among young adults at high and low familial risk for depression.
Shimrit DachesMiklós VértesKaren MatthewsEdit DósaEniko KissIldikó BajiKrisztina KapornaiCharles J GeorgeMaria KovacsPublished in: Psychological medicine (2021)
Our study extends the literature on the association between MetS and depression and underscores the importance of depression phenotypes: failure to account for the clinical heterogeneity of depression may partly underlie the inconsistent findings regarding its relation to MetS. The results also suggest that, in depression-prone populations, MetS may predate and possibly function as a risk factor for eventual depression.