The Relationships Between Lipid Profile Levels, Depression, and Suicide Attempts

The Relationships Between Lipid Profile Levels, Depression, and Suicide Attempts 

Most of the data that examined depressive symptoms and lipid profile levels have been from the community studies performed in different countries by the self-related depression scales. Most of these studies were performed by psychiatrists according to specifically clinical criteria in psychiatric inpatients or outpatients or in patients admitted for general health screening. 

Depressive Symptoms and Lipid Profile Levels in the Community 

In addition, Nakao et al. have examined the effects of mood states on persistent versus temporary hypercholesterolemia in students entering a university [29]. They found that depressive mood appeared to relate to hypercholesterolemia when the university students were screened with tension-anxiety, depression, anger-hostility, vigor, fatigue, and confusion scales [29]. In children, after covariance adjustment for age, race, and sex, Glueck et al. pointed out that children having adjustment disorders with depression had much lower covariance-adjusted TC values than control 

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