Table 3. Age-adjusted regression coefficients (B) of childhood metabolic syndrome components (Model1), adulthood metabolic syndrome components (Model 2), and both childhood and adulthood metabolic syndrome components (Model 3) as predictors of depressive symptoms in 2001.

Metabolic syndrome component	Women (n=538)			Men (n=383)
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
In childhood (1980)a
Body-mass index	0.08		-0.04	0.15*		0.11
Systolic blood pressure	0.02		0.02	-0.12		-0.14*
Diastolic blood pressure	0.04		0.03	-0.10		-0.11*
HDL-cholesterol	0.00			0.08		0.11
Triglycerides	0.08		0.05	0.07		0.07
Insulin	0.03		0.03	0.07		0.06
In adulthood (2001)a
Waist circumference		0.22***	0.22***		0.13*	0.06
Systolic blood pressure		0.01	0.01		0.04	0.09
Diastolic blood pressure		-0.02	0.02*		-0.04	-0.02
HDL-cholesterol		0.02	0.02		0.00	-0.06
Triglycerides		0.04	0.04		0.04	0.02
Glucose		0.04	0.04		-0.02	-0.01
R2 statistics:
R2 of Model 1 (%)	1.6			4.5
R2 of Model 2 (%)		5.4			2.5
R2 of Model 3 (%)			5.9			6.0
ΔR2 between Model 1 and 3 (%)			4.3			1.5
ΔR2 between Model 2 and 3 (%)			0.5			3.5

^aAll components were entered simultaneously into the model.

^*p < .05,

^**p < .01

^***p < .001