HCPlive (8/17, Walter) reports researchers “used phenotypic and genomic data from over 100,000 UK Biobank participants to systematically screen and validate a wide range of potential modifiable factors for depression,” extracting “baseline data for 106 modifiable risk factors [for] depression including lifestyle measures such as exercise, sleep, media, and diet, social factors including support and engagement, and environmental variable[s] such as green space and pollution.” After using “Mendelian randomization evidence,” investigators concluded that certain factors were “actionable targets for preventing depression.” The findings were published online Aug. 14 in the American Journal of Psychiatry, a publication of the American Psychiatric Association.
Related Links:
— “More Risk Factors Predict Future Depression, “Kenny Walter, HCPlive, August 17, 2020