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. 2020 Mar 17;7:24. doi: 10.3389/fnut.2020.00024

Table 1.

Characteristics of patients with depression belonging to different weight categories.

Weight category Total
N = 63,830
n (%)
Underweight
N = 1,685 (2.6%)
n (%)
Normal weight
N = 23,188 (36.3%)
n (%)
Overweight
N = 19,643 (30.8%)
n (%)
Obese
N = 19,314 (30.5%)
n (%)
Age
mean (SD) 32.9 (17.2) 38.3 (15.9) 43.3 (15.5) 42.1 (14.5) 40.9 (15.6)
median (IQR) 25.4 (22.1) 35.3 (24.4) 42.4 (22.9) 40.9 (21.0) 39.3 (23.5)
Sex
men 380 (22.6%) 5,569 (24.0%) 6,982 (35.5%) 5,791 (30.0%) 18,722 (29.3%)
women 1,305 (77.5%) 17,619 (76.0%) 12,661 (64.5%) 13,523 (70.0%) 45,108 (70.7%)
BMI, first measure
mean (SD) 17.5 (0.8) 22.2 (1.7) 27.3 (1.4) 36.1 (6.2) 27.8 (6.9)
median (IQR) 17.7 (1.1) 22.4 (2.8) 27.2 (2.4) 34.2 (6.6) 26.5 (8.1)
Comorbidities
At least one comorbidity 126 (7.5%) 1,884 (8.1%) 2,451 (12.6%) 3,891 (20.2%) 8,352 (13.1%)
COPD 38 (2.3%) 339 (1.5%) 302 (1.5%) 457 (2.4%) 1,136 (1.8%)
Dementia 19 (1.1%) 199 (0.9%) 235 (1.2%) 212 (1.1%) 665 (1.0%)
Diabetes 14 (0.8%) 314 (1.4%) 564 (2.9%) 1455 (7.5%) 2,347 (3.7%)
Epilepsy 48 (2.9%) 628 (2.7%) 618 (3.2%) 844 (4.4%) 2,138 (3.4%)
Hypertension 40 (2.4%) 767 (3.3%) 1,418 (7.2%) 2,372 (12.3%) 4,597 (7.2%)
Osteoarthritis 21 (1.3%) 419 (1.8%) 630 (3.2%) 1,056 (5.5%) 2,126 (3.3%)
Parkinson 2 (0.1%) 38 (0.2%) 40 (0.2%) 33 (0.2%) 113 (0.2%)

BMI, Body mass Index.