TY - JOUR
T1 - Relationships among Depressive Symptoms, Body Weight, and Chronic Pain
T2 - A Cross-Sectional Analysis of the Shika Study
AU - Fukushima, Shinobu
AU - Suzuki, Fumihiko
AU - Tsujiguchi, Hiromasa
AU - Hara, Akinori
AU - Miyagi, Sakae
AU - Kannon, Takayuki
AU - Suzuki, Keita
AU - Shimizu, Yukari
AU - Nguyen, Thao Thi Thu
AU - Yanagisawa, Toru
AU - Oku, Fumika
AU - Sato, Kuniko
AU - Nakamura, Masaharu
AU - Hayashi, Koichiro
AU - Shibata, Aki
AU - Konoshita, Tadashi
AU - Kambayashi, Yasuhiro
AU - Tsuboi, Hirohito
AU - Tajima, Atsushi
AU - Nakamura, Hiroyuki
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 by the authors.
PY - 2023/2
Y1 - 2023/2
N2 - Although depression and body weight have individually been associated with chronic pain (CP), it currently remains unclear whether the combination of depressive symptoms (DS) and being underweight/overweight is related to CP. Therefore, we herein investigated the relationships among depression, body mass index (BMI), and CP in community-dwelling middle-aged and elderly individuals. Participants comprised 2216 inhabitants of Shika town in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, including 1003 males (mean age of 68.72 years, standard deviation (SD) of 8.36) and 1213 females (mean age of 69.65 years, SD of 9.36). CP and DS were assessed using a CP questionnaire and Geriatric Depression Scale-15, respectively. The Breslow–Day test indicated that DS positively correlated with lumbar/knee pain in the BMI < 25 group, but not in the BMI ≥ 25 group. Furthermore, lumber/knee pain was related to a higher BMI. These results were confirmed by a logistic analysis with age, sex, BMI, solitary living, the duration of education, no exercise/hobbies, smoking history, alcohol intake, and medical treatment for diabetes, hyperlipidemia, or hypertension as confounding factors. The present study indicates the importance of considering DS and BMI in the prevention of CP. Further studies are needed to clarify the causal relationships among depression, BMI, and CP.
AB - Although depression and body weight have individually been associated with chronic pain (CP), it currently remains unclear whether the combination of depressive symptoms (DS) and being underweight/overweight is related to CP. Therefore, we herein investigated the relationships among depression, body mass index (BMI), and CP in community-dwelling middle-aged and elderly individuals. Participants comprised 2216 inhabitants of Shika town in Ishikawa prefecture, Japan, including 1003 males (mean age of 68.72 years, standard deviation (SD) of 8.36) and 1213 females (mean age of 69.65 years, SD of 9.36). CP and DS were assessed using a CP questionnaire and Geriatric Depression Scale-15, respectively. The Breslow–Day test indicated that DS positively correlated with lumbar/knee pain in the BMI < 25 group, but not in the BMI ≥ 25 group. Furthermore, lumber/knee pain was related to a higher BMI. These results were confirmed by a logistic analysis with age, sex, BMI, solitary living, the duration of education, no exercise/hobbies, smoking history, alcohol intake, and medical treatment for diabetes, hyperlipidemia, or hypertension as confounding factors. The present study indicates the importance of considering DS and BMI in the prevention of CP. Further studies are needed to clarify the causal relationships among depression, BMI, and CP.
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U2 - 10.3390/bs13020086
DO - 10.3390/bs13020086
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85148871886
SN - 2076-328X
VL - 13
JO - Behavioral Sciences
JF - Behavioral Sciences
IS - 2
M1 - 86
ER -
