[YSPNetwork] Associations of hormones and menopausal status with depressed mood in women with no history of depression

[Lisa M MILLET]

This is the first article I found on PubMed at this link, the full text is free and the pdf is attached below:
 
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16585466?ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_DiscoveryPanel.Pubmed_Discovery_RA&linkpos=4&log$=relatedarticles&logdbfrom=pubmed 
 
 
Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2006 Apr;63(4):375-82.
and comment in: Evid Based Ment Health. 2006 Nov;9(4):110. Associations of hormones and menopausal status with depressed mood in women with no history of depression.Freeman EW, Sammel MD, Lin H, Nelson DB.
Department of Obstetrics/Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, 19104, USA. freemane at mail.med.upenn.eduCONTEXT: Whether depressed mood reported in the transition to menopause by women with no history of depression is associated with menopausal status and changes in reproductive hormones is controversial and lacks scientific information. OBJECTIVES: To identify new onset of depressive symptoms and diagnosed depressive disorders in the menopausal transition and to determine the associations of menopausal status, reproductive hormones, and other risk factors with these cases. DESIGN: A within-woman, longitudinal (8-year) study to identify risk factors of depressed mood. SETTING: A subset of a randomly identified, population-based cohort. PARTICIPANTS: Premenopausal women with no history of depression at cohort enrollment. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: The Center for Epidemiological Studies of Depression scale (CES-D) was used to assess depressive symptoms, and the Primary Care Evaluation of Mental Disorders (PRIME-MD) was used to identify clinical diagnoses of depressive disorders. RESULTS: High CES-D scores (> or=16) were more than 4 times more likely to occur during a woman's menopausal transition compared with when she was premenopausal (odds ratio, 4.29; 95% confidence interval, 2.39-7.72; P<.001). Within-woman change in menopausal status, increased levels of follicle-stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone, and increased variability of estradiol, follicle-stimulating hormone, and luteinizing hormone around the woman's own mean levels were each significantly associated with high CES-D scores after adjusting for smoking, body mass index, premenstrual syndrome, hot flashes, poor sleep, health status, employment, and marital status. A diagnosis of depressive disorder was 2(1/2) times more likely to occur in the menopausal transition compared with when the woman was premenopausal (odds ratio, 2.50; 95% confidence interval, 1.25-5.02; P=.01); the hormone measures were also significantly associated with this outcome. CONCLUSION: Transition to menopause and its changing hormonal milieu are strongly associated with new onset of depressed mood among women with no history of depression. Lisa M. Millet
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