ReviewNutrients2024
Depression and Obesity-Do We Know Everything about It? A Narrative Review.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Gut microbiota-dependent mechanisms and efficacy of natural polysaccharides in multitarget antidepressant therapy: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
- The mediating role of brain structural-functional connectivity coupling in linking paternal education to BMI and depressive scores in young adults.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
- Association Between Body Mass Index and Depressive Symptom Trajectories Among Chinese Middle and Old Aged Adults: A Cohort Analysis Based on the CHARLS.Brain and behavior · 2026Article
- Frailty and Cardiovascular Events as Determined by Body Composition: A Systematic Review.Chronic diseases and translational medicine · 2026Review
- Linking Obesity and Depression Through the Gut-Brain Axis: The Impact of Short-Chain Fatty Acids and Inflammation.Nutrients · 2026Review
- Resistant and Refractory Obesity: The Complexity of Anti-Obesity Therapy Failure.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- The Gender Differences of Mediating Effect of Body Mass Index Between Perceived Control and Depressive Symptoms in Korean Workers.Psychiatry investigation · 2026Article
- Electroacupuncture alleviates comorbid obesity and depression via the gut-brain axis: orchestrating SCFA-producing bacteria and hippocampal synaptic plasticity.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Identification of Potential Key Biomarkers for Comorbid Depression and Obesity Through Integrated Bioinformatics Analysis and Experimental Verification.Journal of inflammation research · 2026Article
- Physical exercise as a modulator of the sleep-obesity interaction: metabolic, neuroendocrine and circadian mechanisms.Frontiers in sleep · 2026Review
- Obesity and Depression: A Pathophysiotoxic Relationship.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Parallel Pathways, Divergent Outcomes: Adipose Tissue-Neural Crosstalk in Depression and Obesity.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Metabolic Modulators in Depression: Emerging Molecular Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Identification of biomarkers related to metabolically healthy or unhealthy obesity in children and adolescents with depressive disorders: a cross-sectional study.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Obesity: pathophysiology and therapeutic interventions.Molecular biomedicine · 2025Review
- Mapping Psychological Well-Being in Morbid Obesity: A Network Analysis Approach.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- The prevalence and associated factors of third-trimester pregnancy depression in pre-pregnancy overweight and obesity women: a cross-sectional study in Guangdong, China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
introductionDue to similarities in their pathophysiology and common psychological background, depressive disorders and obesity often occur simultaneously. The treatment of obesity can reduce the symptoms of comorbid depression and, conversely, treating depression can improve weight reduction outcomes. PURPOSE OF THIS STUDY: This review aimed to analyze the available literature on the subject of various methods of treating obesity and comorbid depression and to demonstrate the mutual correlation between the therapy of depressive disorders and the therapy of obesity.
methodThe Pubmed and Cochrane databases were searched for original articles on the subject of simultaneous depression and obesity that had been published between 2014 and 2024, using the key words "depression", "depressive symptoms", "obesity", and "behavioral therapy". RESULTS AND
conclusionsThe successful treatment of depression can help in treating obesity, especially in motivating patients to adjust their lifestyle by changing dietary habits and increasing their physical activity, which contribute to both changes in body mass index scores and reductions in depressive symptoms. Changes in self-perception, reduced daily stress, and dietary changes, as well as increased physical activity, contribute to both weight loss and the reduction of depressive symptoms. Depression and obesity should be treated as one two-dimensional disorder to achieve better long-term treatment results.
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