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Adhering to a vegetarian diet may create a greater risk of depressive symptoms in the elderly male Chinese population
Xiude Li,Hongjuan Cao,Shaoyu Xie,Kaichun Li,Fangbiao Tao,Linsheng Yang,Jun-qing Zhang,Yuan-song Bao +7 more
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Vegetarian diets may pose a greater risk of depressive symptoms among the elderly Chinese population, especially elderly men, and further prospective studies are needed.About:
This article is published in Journal of Affective Disorders.The article was published on 2019-01-15. It has received 33 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Risk factor & Ordinal regression.read more
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Antibiotic body burden of elderly Chinese population and health risk assessment: A human biomonitoring-based study
Yitian Zhu,Kaiyong Liu,Jingjing Zhang,Xinji Liu,Linsheng Yang,Rong Wei,Sufang Wang,Dongmei Zhang,Shaoyu Xie,Fangbiao Tao +9 more
TL;DR: The elderly Chinese people were extensively exposed to VAs, and some elderly individuals may have a health risk associated with dysbiosis of the gut microbiota.
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Meat and mental health: a systematic review of meat abstention and depression, anxiety, and related phenomena
Urska Dobersek,Gabrielle C. Wy,Joshua Adkins,Sydney Altmeyer,Kaitlin Krout,Carl J. Lavie,Edward Archer +6 more
TL;DR: The majority of studies showed that those who avoided meat consumption had significantly higher rates or risk of depression, anxiety, and/or self-harm behaviors, and this study does not support meat avoidance as a strategy to benefit psychological health.
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Vegetarian Diet: An Overview through the Perspective of Quality of Life Domains.
TL;DR: A review of the background, conceptualization, features, and potential effects of vegetarianism in all quality of life domains is presented in this article, where the authors focus on the positive effects of adopting a vegetarian diet, such as better physical health, positive feelings related to the adoption of a morally correct attitude, an increased sense of belonging, and lower environmental impact.
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Creatine for the Treatment of Depression.
TL;DR: Creatine, a widely available nutritional supplement, has the potential to improve disruptions in brain energy production, storage, and utilization in some patients, and early clinical trials indicate that it may have efficacy as an antidepressant agent.
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Vegetarian diet and the risk of depression, anxiety, and stress symptoms: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.
Mohammadreza Askari,Elnaz Daneshzad,Manije Darooghegi Mofrad,Nick Bellissimo,Katherine Suitor,Leila Azadbakht +5 more
TL;DR: A systematic review was conducted to summarize the current state of literature regarding the understanding of the association between a vegetarian diet and depression, anxiety and stress, and no significant associations were observed between the consumption of a vegetarian Diet and depression or anxiety.
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Jerome A. Yesavage,T. L. Brink,Terence L. Rose,Owen Lum,Virginia Huang,Michael Adey,Von O. Leirer +6 more
TL;DR: A new Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) designed specifically for rating depression in the elderly was tested for reliability and validity and compared with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression (HRS-D) and the Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale(SDS) as discussed by the authors.
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Depression in Late Life: Review and Commentary
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Depression Is the Leading Cause of Disability Around the World.
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A meta-analytic review of polyunsaturated fatty acid compositions in patients with depression.
TL;DR: These findings provide further support to the phospholipid hypothesis of depression and a rationale for using n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids as an alternative treatment for depression, and future studies examining specific roles of DHA and EPA in different clusters of depressive symptoms are warranted.
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Vegetarian diets: what do we know of their effects on common chronic diseases?
TL;DR: It is probable that using the label "vegetarian" as a dietary category is too broad and that understanding will be served well by dividing vegetarians into more descriptive subtypes, and different types of vegetarians may not experience the same effects on health.