Depression may cause abdominal obesity in older people, Dutch study says
A Dutch study, which included 2100 older people, says that there is a possible link between abdominal fat and depression in older people. In this stu...
A Dutch study, which included 2100 older people, says that there is a possible link between abdominal fat and depression in older people.
In this study, these older people underwent screening for depression at the beginning of the study and their abdominal as well as overall body fat levels were also noticed at that time, and then after five years they were checked again.
After adjusting social, demographic and other weight change relevant factors, the researchers found that their depression linked to higher abdominal and visceral fat.
Nicole Vogelzangs, the lead author of the study, says: “We didn’t find the same sort of link between depression and overall obesity and the depressive symptoms in these older people were found particularly linked with abdominal fat.”
