Added sugars and sugar-sweetened beverage consumption, dietary carbohydrate index and depression risk in the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) Project

The British Journal of Nutrition

Almudena Sanchez-Villegas¹  Itziar Zazpe²  Susana Santiago³  Aurora Perez-Cornago⁴  Miguel A. Martinez-Gonzalez⁵  Francisca Lahortiga-Ramos⁶ 

[1] 1Nutrition Research Group, Research Institute of Biomedical and Health Sciences, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Dr. Pasteur s/n, Trasera Hospital Insular, CP 35016, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain;2Ciber de Fisiopatología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBER OBN), Instituto de Salud Carlos III, 28029 Madrid, Spain;3Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences and Physiology, University of Navarra, Irunlarrea s/n, 31008 Pamplona, Spain;4Cancer Epidemiology Unit, Nuffield Department of Population Health, University of Oxford, Oxford OX3 7LF, UK;5Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Navarra, C/ Irunlarrea, n° 1, CP 31008, Pamplona, Spain;6Department of Nutrition, Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA;7Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, University Clinic of Navarra, Pío XII 36, 31008 Pamplona, Navarra, Spain

关键词: Added sugars;    Sweetened beverages;    Carbohydrate quality;    Glycaemic index;    Depression risk;   

DOI  :  10.1017/S0007114517003361

学科分类：卫生学

来源: Cambridge University Press

【 摘 要 】

The association between added sugars or sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and the risk of depression, as well as the role of carbohydrate quality in depression risk, remains unclear. Among 15 546 Spanish university graduates from the Seguimiento Universidad de Navarra (SUN) prospective cohort study, diet was assessed with a validated 136-item semi-quantitative FFQ at baseline and at 10-year follow-up. Cumulative average consumption of added sugars, sweetened drinks and an overall carbohydrate quality index (CQI) were calculated. A better CQI was associated with higher whole-grain consumption and fibre intake and lower glycaemic index and consumption of solid (instead of liquid) carbohydrates. Clinical diagnoses of depression during follow-up were classified as incident cases. Multivariable time-dependent Cox regression models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HR) of depression according to consumption of added sugars, sweetened drinks and CQI. We observed 769 incident cases of depression. Participants in the highest quartile of added sugars consumption showed a significant increment in the risk of depression (HR=1·35; 95 % CI 1·09, 1·67, P=0·034), whereas those in the highest quartile of CQI (upper quartile of the CQI) showed a relative risk reduction of 30 % compared with those in the lowest quartile of the CQI (HR=0·70; 95 % CI 0·56, 0·88). No significant association between sugar-sweetened beverage consumption and depression risk was found. Higher added sugars and lower quality of carbohydrate consumption were associated with depression risk in the SUN Cohort. Further studies are necessary to confirm the reported results.

【 授权许可】

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