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| by William Atkins | |
| Sunday, 05 October 2008 | |
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Science DiscussionsAccording to the Wednesday, October 1, 2008 media release “Smoking increases depression in women, study reveals," from the University of Melbourne, its researchers, along with associates from Barwon Health (The Geelong Hospital), studied about one thousand Australian women for one decade. The smoking-depression study was performed as part of the Geelong Osteoporosis Study (GOS), which is a population based study on osteoporosis (bone disease) in Australia. The article “Tobacco smoking as a risk factor for major depressive disorder: population-based study” was published in the October 4, 2008 issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry. Its authors are Julie A. Pasco, Dip Ed, Lana J. Williams, Felice N. Jacka, Felicity Ng, Margaret J. Henry, Geoffrey C. Nicholson, Mark A. Kotowicz, and Michael Berk (also from Orygen Research Centre and Mental Health Research Institute, Australia), all from the Department of Clinical and Biomedical Science: Barwon Health, The University of Melbourne, Victoria; The researchers state that smoking cigarettes is known in the medical community to be used much more frequently with people having psychiatric illness. Consequently, they decided to study whether there is a relationship between smoking and major depressive disorder (clinical depression), which is a medically diagnosed mental disorder characterized by low mood and loss of interest in normal daily activities. The Melbourne researchers used 165 women with major depressive disorder and 806 women without clinical depression (who were used as control subjects). The researchers found that “smoking was associated with increased odds for major depressive disorder.” Page two continues the study results. |
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