Are cardiovascular risk factors in young people longitudinally associated with depression?
Targeting childhood and adolescent smoking and obesity may be important for preventing both cardiovascular disease and depression across the lifespan.
Targeting childhood/adolescent smoking and obesity may be important for the prevention of both CVD and depression across the lifespan. Further research on other CVD risk factors including blood pressure and cholesterol in young people is required.
Chaplin et al. (Fri,) studied this question.