Mood Emot.  2020 Nov;18(3):83-89. 10.35986/me.2020.18.3.83.

Lack of Association between Metabolic Syndrome and Depression in Korean Adults: Analysis Based on the 2016 and 2018 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Psychiatry, Haeundae Paik Hospital, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea
  • 2Department of Convergence Biomedical Science, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea
  • 3Paik Institute for Clinical Research, Inje University, Busan, Korea
  • 4Department of Health Science and Technology, Graduate School, Inje University, Busan, Korea
  • 5Department of Humanities and Social Sciences in Medicine, College of Medicine, Inje University, Busan, Korea

Abstract

Background
This study aims to investigate the relationship between metabolic syndrome and depression in Korean adults using data from the 2016 and 2018 Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (KNHANES).
Methods
The total number of participants in the 7th period 1st year (2016) and 3rd year (2018) surveys of KNHANES was 16142. This study was conducted with 10,722 subjects who met the diagnostic criteria for metabolic syndrome and responded to the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9). Analysis of covariance was used to adjust the differences due to demographic factors, laboratory findings, and underlying diseases to understand the relationship between metabolic syndrome and PHQ-9 scores, if any.
Results
The prevalence of metabolic syndrome was determined to be 25.6% in this study. The PHQ-9 scores with and without metabolic syndrome were 2.56 and 2.48, respectively, and there was no significant difference when the confounding variable was corrected (p=0.406). According to the analysis of each PHQ-9 item and metabolic syndrome, the results were not significant.
Conclusion
In this cross-sectional study conducted in Korean adults, no significant correlation was found between metabolic syndrome and depression.

Keyword

Depression; Patient Health Questionnaire-9; Metabolic syndrome; Korea
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