TY - JOUR
T1 - Vegetarian diet is inversely associated with prevalence of depression in middle-older aged South Asians in the United States
AU - Jin, Yichen
AU - Kandula, Namratha R.
AU - Kanaya, Alka M.
AU - Talegawkar, Sameera A.
N1 - Funding Information:
The MASALA study was supported by the National Institutes of Health [grant number R01-HL-093009]. Data collection at UCSF was also supported by NIH/NCRR UCSF-CTSI [grant numbers UL1 RR024131, UL1 TR000004]. We thank Luis A. Rodriguez from the Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco for providing the Alternative Health Eating Index variables for the sensitivity analysis conducted in this study.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Objective: To investigate associations between a vegetarian diet and depression among South Asians in the United States. Design: Data from 892 South Asians (age range 40–83 y, 47% women) enrolled in the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study were included. A vegetarian diet was defined as no intake of meat, poultry or fish in the previous year as reported on a validated food frequency questionnaire. Depressive symptomology was assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) and depression was classified as CES-D score ≥16. Multivariable logistic regression was used and covariates included age, sex, study site, education, smoking, body mass index, acculturation, intentional exercise, alcohol and energy intake, and antidepressant medication use. Results: Our study demonstrated 43% lower odds of depression among vegetarians (p = 0.023). Conclusions: Vegetarian diet was found to be inversely associated with the prevalence of depression. Longitudinal examinations confirming these findings are needed.
AB - Objective: To investigate associations between a vegetarian diet and depression among South Asians in the United States. Design: Data from 892 South Asians (age range 40–83 y, 47% women) enrolled in the Mediators of Atherosclerosis in South Asians Living in America (MASALA) study were included. A vegetarian diet was defined as no intake of meat, poultry or fish in the previous year as reported on a validated food frequency questionnaire. Depressive symptomology was assessed using the Center for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression Scale (CES-D) and depression was classified as CES-D score ≥16. Multivariable logistic regression was used and covariates included age, sex, study site, education, smoking, body mass index, acculturation, intentional exercise, alcohol and energy intake, and antidepressant medication use. Results: Our study demonstrated 43% lower odds of depression among vegetarians (p = 0.023). Conclusions: Vegetarian diet was found to be inversely associated with the prevalence of depression. Longitudinal examinations confirming these findings are needed.
KW - South Asians
KW - Vegetarian
KW - depression
KW - diet
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U2 - 10.1080/13557858.2019.1606166
DO - 10.1080/13557858.2019.1606166
M3 - Article
C2 - 31021177
AN - SCOPUS:85065076111
SN - 1355-7858
VL - 26
SP - 504
EP - 511
JO - Ethnicity and Health
JF - Ethnicity and Health
IS - 4
ER -
