Prospective data from the Women's Health Initiative on depressive symptoms, stress, and inflammation
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This study examined the longitudinal association of depressive symptoms and stressful life events with inflammation in the Women's Health Initiative. Women aged 50 years and older ( N = 7477) completed questionnaires assessing depressive symptoms and stressful life events at baseline and 15 years later. Serum measures of C-reactive protein were collected at both assessments. In bivariate analyses, C-reactive protein predicted 15-year depressive symptoms and stressful life events ( ps < .03) and baseline depressive symptoms and stressful life events predicted later C-reactive protein ( ps < .03). These longitudinal relationships were not maintained in multivariate adjusted analyses. Combined with previous research, this suggests the relationship between depression, stressful life events and inflammation attenuates with time
Bivariate analysis · C-reactive protein · Cognition · Depression (economics · Depressive symptoms · Inflammation · Longitudinal study · Multivariate analysis · Pathology · Prospective cohort study · Psychiatry · Cardiac Health and Mental Health · Medicine · Psychology · Stress Responses and Cortisol · Tryptophan and brain disorders · Clinical Psychology · Gerontology · Internal Medicine
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