• Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 5

    Associations between depression subtypes, depression severity and diet quality: crosssectional findings from the BiDirect Study Background: Depression is supposed to be associated with an unhealthy lifestyle including poor diet. The objective of this study was to investigate differences in diet quality between patients with a clinical diagnosis of depression and population-based controls. Additionally, we aimed to examine effects of ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 4

    Association between frequency of fried food consumption and resilience to depression in Japanese company workers: a cross-sectional study Background: Long-chain n-3 and n-6 polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC n-3/n-6 PUFA) play important roles in emotional regulation. We previously reported an association between fish consumption, which is major source of LC n-3 PUFA, and resilience to depression, where resilience is the ability to cope with ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 3

    Association between depressive symptoms, use of antidepressant medication and the metabolic syndrome: the Maine-Syracuse Study Abstract Background: Both depression and the metabolic syndrome (MetS) are two major public health issues. The aim of this study was to examine associations between depressive symptoms, the use of antidepressant medications, and the prevalence of MetS. Methods: Cross-sectional analyses were undertaken on 970 ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 2

    A Meta-Analysis of Oxidative Stress Markers in Depression Object Studies have suggested that depression was accompanied by oxidative stress dysregulation, including abnormal total antioxidant capacity (TAC), antioxidants, free radicals, oxidative damage and autoimmune response products. This meta-analysis aims to analyse the clinical data quantitatively by comparing the oxidative stress markers between depressed patients and healthy ...
  • Nutrição e Depressão – Artigo 1

    A longitudinal analysis of diet quality scores and the risk of incident epression in the SUN Project Abstract Background: Some studies have pointed out that several dietary patterns could be associated with a reduced risk of depression among dults. This association seems to be consistent across countries, cultures and populations. The objective of the study was to compare and to stablish the type of relationship between three diet quality ...
  • Nutrição e esteatose hepática – Artigo 10

    Vitamin D Levels Are Inversely Associated with Liver Fat Content and Risk of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease in a Chinese Middle-Aged and Elderly Population: The Shanghai Changfeng Study Abstract Background/Objectives Vitamin D exerts metabolic activities. We investigated whether the 25-hydroxy vitamin D [25 (OH)D] is associated with liver fat content (LFC) and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) in a middle-aged, elderly Chinese ...
  • Nutrição e esteatose hepática – Artigo 09

    The Pathogenesis of Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease: Interplay between Diet, Gut Microbiota, and Genetic Background Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is the most common chronic liver disease in the world, and it comprises a spectrum of hepatic abnormalities from simple hepatic steatosis to steatohepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and liver cancer. While the pathogenesis of NAFLD remains incompletely understood, a multihit model has been ...
  • Nutrição e esteatose hepática – Artigo 08

    Statins, antidiabetic medications and liver histology in patients with diabetes with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease ABSTRACT Background: Type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a risk factor for progressive non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD). Drugs commonly prescribed in patients with T2DM may affect liver histology by interfering with lipid metabolism and insulin resistance/secretion. Aim: We studied if statins or antidiabetic ...