Why the study?
Do elevated depressive symptoms increase the risk of incident asthma in young and middle-aged adults?
Do elevated depressive symptoms increase the risk of incident asthma in young and middle-aged adults?
Elevated depressive symptoms are a marker of risk for incident adult-onset asthma, whereas prevalent asthma is not associated with incident adult-onset depression.
Elevated depressive symptoms may mark higher incident asthma risk in adults; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective confirmation.
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Brunner et al. (2014) studied this question.
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