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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Nutr.
Sec. Clinical Nutrition
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fnut.2025.1518551
This article is part of the Research Topic Unraveling the Associations Between Diet and Mental Health View all articles

Association between the dietary inflammatory index and depressive symptoms in adults with metabolic syndrome: A cross-sectional study from the NHANES database

Provisionally accepted
Jinshun You Jinshun You Jinshun You Jinshun You Shujie Xia Shujie Xia *
  • Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China

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    The comorbidity of metabolic syndrome (MS) and depressive symptoms has emerged as a growing public health concern, contributing to a substantial global economic burden. The pathogenesis of this comorbidity is thought to be closely linked to inflammation. However, research examining the impact of the Dietary Inflammatory Index (DII) on depressive symptoms in adults with MS remains limited. This study aims to investigate the association between the DII and depressive symptoms in adults with MS, utilizing data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

    Keywords: Diet, Depression, Inflammation, adult population, database

    Received: 28 Oct 2024; Accepted: 10 Jan 2025.

    Copyright: © 2025 Jinshun You and Xia. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Shujie Xia, Fujian University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Fuzhou, China

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