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Prospective plasma lipid profiling in individuals with and without depression

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Title
Prospective plasma lipid profiling in individuals with and without depression
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Lipids in Health and Disease, June 2018
DOI 10.1186/s12944-018-0796-3
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Dietmar Enko, Wolfgang Brandmayr, Gabriele Halwachs-Baumann, Wolfgang J. Schnedl, Andreas Meinitzer, Gernot Kriegshäuser

Abstract

So far, studies on possible association of plasma lipid levels and depressive disorder are contradictory. This prospective work aimed at assessing a plasma lipid profile in individuals with major depression and healthy controls. In total, 94 patients with major depression and 152 healthy controls were included in this prospective study. After an overnight fasting state of 12 h they underwent blood drawing for triglyzerides (TG), total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL)- and high-density lipoprotein (HDL)-cholesterol measurements. All participants were evaluated in a clinical interview and filled out the self-rating Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-II) scale to identify depressive symptomatology. Ninety-four patients with major depression showed significantly higher median (interquartile range) plasma TG levels (108.0 [75.8-154.1] vs. 84.0 [63.0-132.2] mg/dL, P = 0.014) and significantly lower HDL-cholesterol levels (55.0 [46.9-123.0] vs. 61.5 [47.4-72.6] mg/dL, P = 0.049) compared to 152 individuals without depression, respectively. Total and LDL-cholesterol concentrations were observed slightly higher in patients with major depression. Significant positive correlation was found between TG, total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol concentrations and the BDI-II score (p = 0.027, 0.048 and 0.018), and in tendency negative correlation between HDL-cholesterol levels and the BDI-II score (P = 0.091), respectively. Depressive individuals were found with adverse plasma lipid patterns of higher TG and lower HDL-cholesterol levels compared to healthy controls. On this basis, the authors would suggest the implementation of routine lipid measurements in order to stratify these patients by their cardiovascular risk.

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Unknown 44 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 8 18%
Student > Master 5 11%
Researcher 4 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 7%
Other 6 14%
Unknown 15 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 11 25%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 16%
Psychology 4 9%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 2%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 2%
Other 3 7%
Unknown 17 39%
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