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. 2021 Dec;24(17):5650-5656.
doi: 10.1017/S1368980020004838. Epub 2020 Dec 1.

Dietary antioxidants and fibre intake and depressive symptoms in Iranian adolescent girls

Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh  1   2 , Alireza Omranzadeh  3 , Mohammad Mobin Miri-Moghaddam  3 , Soheil Arekhi  3   4 , Amirhosein Naseri  3 , Amirhosein Ziaee  3 , Leila Khajavi  3 , Fatemeh Nejati Salehkhani  3 , Gordon A Ferns  5 , Majid Ghayour-Mobarhan  6   7
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Dietary antioxidants and fibre intake and depressive symptoms in Iranian adolescent girls

Sayyed Saeid Khayyatzadeh et al. Public Health Nutr. 2021 Dec.

Abstract

Objective: To investigate the cross-sectional association between dietary intakes of antioxidants and fibre and depressive symptoms among Iranian adolescent girls.

Design: A cross-sectional population-based study.

Setting: Primary schools in two different cities located in northeastern Iran (Mashhad and Sabzevar).

Participants: A total of 988 adolescent girls aged 12-18 years were included in the study.

Results: Subjects with no or minimal depression symptoms had significantly higher dietary intakes of α-carotene (P = 0·01), β-carotene (P = 0·006), lutein (P = 0·03) and vitamin C (P = 0·04) when compared with subjects with mild-to-severe depression symptoms. Soluble dietary fibre and insoluble dietary fibre intakes were also significantly higher in healthy adolescents compared with those with depression symptoms (P < 0·001). In multivariate-adjusted model 2, the OR (95 % CI) of depressive symptoms were 0·61 (95 % CI 0·37, 1·01), 0·42 (95 % CI 0·26, 0·69), 0·50 (95 % CI 0·31, 0·79), 0·71 (95 % CI 0·44, 1·15), 0·51 (95 % CI 0·32, 0·82) and 0·42 (95 % CI 0·25, 0·68) for the highest v. lowest quartile of vitamin C, β-carotene, α-carotene, lutein, soluble dietary fibre and insoluble dietary fibre cereal intakes, respectively.

Conclusions: Dietary intake of some antioxidants and dietary fibre intake was inversely associated with depression symptoms among Iranian adolescent girls.

Keywords: Adolescent girls; Depressive symptoms; Dietary antioxidants; Dietary fibre.

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