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Self-Reported Depression and Cardiovascular Risk Factors in a Community Sample of Women

Received December 5, 2005; revised January 31, 2006; accepted March 3, 2006. From The University of Melbourne, Department of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Barwon Health, Victoria, Australia. Send correspondence and reprint requests to Felice Jacka, The Univ. of Melbourne, Dept. of Clinical and Biomedical Sciences, Barwon Health, P.O. Box 281, Geelong 3220, Australia. e-mail: felice{at}barwonhealth.org.au

The authors examined data collected from a randomly selected, representative sample of 755 women (ages 23–97 years) from southeastern Australia. Self-report questionnaires were utilized to determine lifetime rates of depression and cardiovascular risk factors within the study sample. A lifetime history of depression (LHx) was reported by 145 women (19.20%). There were no associations between indices of weight, cholesterol levels, hypertension, inactivity, diabetes, and LHx. However, a history of smoking increased the odds of reporting an LHx, whereas women with self-reported angina were more than four times more likely to report an age-adjusted LHx.

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