Regular Research ArticlesLate-Life Depressed Mood and Weight Change Contribute to the Risk of Each Other
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Study Population
The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study is an ongoing longitudinal cohort study designed to investigate the impact of body composition changes and weight-related health conditions on functional decline in older adults. The Health, Aging and Body Composition Study enrolled 3,075 well-functioning, 70- to 79-year old, black and white men and women. Participants were identified from a random sample of white Medicare beneficiaries and all age-eligible community-dwelling black residents in
RESULTS
Compared with respondents who were included in our analysis sample (N = 2,406), those who were not (N = 669) significantly older (t = 2.98, df = 3,073, p <0.01), less likely to be white (χ2 = 48.20, df = 1, p <0.01), less likely to be married (χ2 = 9.84, df = 2, p <0.01), less likely to try to change their weight (χ2 = 25.47, df = 1, p <0.01), more likely to have ever smoked (χ2 = 30.90, df = 2, p <0.01), and had significantly higher CES-D scores (t = 3.88, df = 3047, p <0.01) (Table 1). Table 1
DISCUSSION
Our study objective was to examine reciprocal associations between depressed mood and weight change over time using the conceptual model in Fig. 1. On the basis of results from our analyses, we can conclude that baseline depressed mood predicted 3-year weight gain. However, 3-year weight loss predicted depressed mood at T4. Both of these associations were partly mediated through interim hospitalizations or revascularization procedures and incident mobility limitation. Accounting for these
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This study was supported by National Institute on Aging contracts N01-AG-6-2101, N01-AG-6-2103, and N01-AG-6-2106. This research was supported (in part) by the Intramural Research Program of NIH, National Institute on Aging.