The association of depression and posttraumatic stress disorder with the metabolic syndrome in a multi-ethnic cohort: the HELIUS study.

Marieke J van Leijden Brenda W J H Penninx Charles Agyemang Miranda Olff Marcel C Adriaanse Marieke B Snijder

Published in: Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology (2018)

A depressed mood was consistently associated with the MetS across ethnic groups, but the association between severe PTSD symptoms and the MetS maybe ethnicity dependent. The association with the MetS was not different in case of depressed mood/severe PTSD symptoms comorbidity.

Keyphrases

posttraumatic stress disorder
sleep quality
metabolic syndrome
bipolar disorder
depressive symptoms
early onset
social support
insulin resistance
skeletal muscle
adipose tissue