Depression and obesity.

By A. Stunkard, M. Faith, K. Allison. Biological Psychiatry, 2003

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Chronic stress and comfort foods: self-medication and abdominal obesity. (2005, background): “Increased abdominal fat stores are strongly associated with the metabolic syndrome, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, morbidity and mortality (Friedman, 2003; Stunkard et al., 2003).”
The Stigma of Obesity: A Review and Update (2009, background): “However, it has been suggested that weight stigmatization may be one of these factors (150), and that weight-based teasing may be a plausible mediator in the relationship between obesity and depression (151).”
Adolescent Obesity and Young Adult Psychosocial Outcomes: Gender and Racial Differences (2008, background): “Recent reports indicate that obese adolescent girls demonstrate unusually high rates of depression ( Stunkard et al. 2003 ) and, considering the stability and recurrence of depressive symptoms (Mueller 1999), gender is likely to intensify the relationship between weight and psychological well being ”
Inflammatory markers in depression: A meta-analysis of mean differences and variability in 5,166 patients and 5,083 controls (2020, neutral): “Another important issue is that smoking and high BMI, which are common in major depression (Dierker et al., 2002; Stunkard et al., 2003; Anda et al., 1990), can significantly affect peripheral inflammatory marker levels (Nieman et al.”
Social Relationships and Health Behavior Across Life Course (2010, background): “Importantly, many studies document that stress, in turn, contributes to poor health habits in childhood, adolescence (Kassel et al. 2003, Stunkard et al. 2003), and adulthood (Kassel et al. 2003, Umberson et al. 2008).”
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes in people with severe mental illness position statement from the European Psychiatric Association (EPA), supported by the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (EASD) and the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) (2009, background): “Among the antidepressants, tricyclic agents (most notably amitriptyline and doxepine), mitrazepine and paroxetine seem to be associated with a higher risk of weight gain [91,92,123].”
Association between obesity and psychiatric disorders in the US adult population. (2006, background): “Most previous research has focused on the association between obesity and depression, and various mechanisms have been proposed to explain this relationship.(11,12,42) Some of those mechanisms propose a causal pathway that leads from depression to obesity.”
Depression as a disease of modernity: explanations for increasing prevalence (2012, background): “Gender, degree of obesity, socioeconomic status, and other moderating variables complicate this relationship (Atlantis and Baker, 2008; Stunkard et al., 2003).”
Imitative Obesity and Relative Utility (2009, neutral): “Jorm et al (2003), Stunkard et al (2003) and Simon et al (2006) find a correlation between obesity and depression, and debate whether it is a causal connection.”