Chi-Fa Hung

TL;DR: Assessment of psychiatric morbidities of patients with head and neck cancer in a prospective study at pretreatment, and 3 and 6 months after treatment, and to compare their health-related quality of life (HRQL) between those with and without depressive disorders (depression) found depression was predicted by sticky saliva and trouble with social contact.

TL;DR: The hypothesis that depression is associated with accelerated cell aging is supported, and future studies are required to clarify whether the association is mediated through environmental stress, and whether effective treatment can halt cell aging.

TL;DR: The authors' instrumental variable analyses did not support a causal relationship between higher BMI and major depression, and the positive associations of higher BMI with major depression in probit regression analyses might be explained by reverse causality and/or residual confounding.

TL;DR: A GRS proved to be a highly significant predictor of obesity in people with MDD but accounted for only modest amount of variance, and as more risk loci are identified, combining a GRS approach with information on non-genetic risk factors could become a useful strategy in identifying MDD patients at higher risk of developing obesity.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that directly applying western cognitive norms to a Mandarin-speaking population can cause biased interpretations with regard to verbal memory, token motor test, verbal fluency, symbol coding, Tower of London and composite score.