The Relationship between Depression and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors among Korean Adults: The Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey in 2014, 2016

Objectives: This study was to investigate the relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factors among Korean adults.Methods: A total of subjects from the Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (VI-2, VIII-1) were 7,417 (men 3,023, women 4,394). The relationship between depression and CVD risk factors of the study subjects were analyzed using descriptive analysis, chi-square test, and multiple logistic regression.Results: The prevalence of diabetes mellitus and hyperlipidemia was 14.9% and 43.5% in depression group and there were stastically signficant. However there was not significantly associated between depression and hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia.Conclusions: Although this study showed that depression was not associated with cardiovascular factors such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus, and hyperlipidemia, the prevalence of diabetes and hyperlipidemia in depression group was significant. Therefore, further study is needed to find relationship with depression and CVD risk factors, and develop the intervention program to control depression and CVD risk factors.