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. 2020 Mar 30;13(1):189.
doi: 10.1186/s13104-020-05025-1.

Association between dietary energy density with mental health and sleep quality in women with overweight/obesity

Niloofar Sadat Maddahi  1 , Habib Yarizadeh  1 , Leila Setayesh  1 , Yasaman Nasir  1 , Shahab Alizadeh  1 , Khadijeh Mirzaei  2
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Association between dietary energy density with mental health and sleep quality in women with overweight/obesity

Niloofar Sadat Maddahi et al. BMC Res Notes. .

Abstract

Objective: Mental health, sleep quality, and dietary intake are interlinked. Impairment of mental health and low sleep quality may contribute to obesity through the consumption of diets high in energy density. Nevertheless, it is not clear whether dietary energy density (DED) influences mental health. This study aimed to examine the association of DED with mental health indices, including depression, anxiety, stress, and sleep quality in women with overweight/obesity.

Results: There was a decreasing trajectory in serum triglyceride across quartiles of DED (from Q1 to Q4) in the crude analysis and also after adjustment for age, BMI, and physical activity After adjustment for age, BMI, and physical activity, subjects in the highest quartile of DED had higher systolic and diastolic blood pressure. DED was significantly associated with increased odds of stress in the crude (OR = 2.15, 95% CI 1.01-4.56, p = 0.04) and adjusted model for age, BMI, and physical activity (OR = 2.56, 95% CI 1.13-5.79, p = 0.02). No significant relationship was observed between DED and depression, anxiety and sleep quality. In conclusion, current study shows preliminary evidence of an association between DED and stress.

Keywords: Anxiety; Depression; Dietary energy density; Mental health; Sleep quality; Stress.

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This is formally to submit the article entitled “Association between Dietary Energy Density and Mental Health in women with overweight/obesity” prepared by the Tehran University of Medical Sciences for review and, hopefully, publication in your prestigious journal. The authors would like to advise that all authors listed have contributed to the work. All authors have agreed to submit the manuscript to BMC Research Notes. No part of the work has been published before. There is no conflict of interest in this paper.

All authors declared that they have no competing interests.

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