Revista panamericana de salud pública = Pan American journal of public health
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Rev. Panam. Salud Publica · May 2006
[Relationship between determining factors for depressive symptoms and for dietary habits in older adults in Mexico].
To determine the factors that are commonly associated with both the dietary habits of older adults living in the community and depressive symptoms in this group. ⋯ A number of determining factors for depressive symptoms and the results obtained on the GDS resemble the factors that determine poor dietary habits among older adults. The potential existence of common causative mechanisms calls attention to the need for designing interventions aimed at preventing both types of problems and their negative consequences. These results confirm the need to take dietary habits and other parameters into account when studying depression in older adults.