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The association between depression and inflammation needs confirmation

Posted by Mike1983 on 04 Jan 2008 at 02:02 GMT

In this paper, depressive symptoms measured by CES-D were not associated with inflammatory factors and adipokines. Our results suggested that the underlying link between depression and CVD still need more investigation. Our another paper in Journal of Affective Disorders found that depressive symptoms were positively associated with insulin resistance. (Journal of Affective Disorders, doi:10.1016/j.jad.2007.11.002 )