Abstract
Background and aims:
The prevalence of anxiety and depression in Iranian adolescent girls is increasing, which is very worrying. Few studies have been done about anthropometric measurements and DII with anxiety and depression in teenage girls. This study aimed to evaluate the association among anthropometric measurements and DII with anxiety and depression in Iranian adolescent girls.
Methods:
Totally, 260 adolescent girls aged 15-18 years were recruited in this study from four schools in Kashan, Isfahan province, Iran. The anthropometric and body composition of students were measured by InBody770. Assessment of the dietary inflammatory index was conducted using a validated semi-quantitative FFQ. The DASS-21 were completed by all participants in this study, to calculate depression and anxiety score.
Results:
There were a significant positive association between BMI (OR: 5.73, 95% CI: 1.11-6.30), BFM (OR: 4.80, 95% CI: 1.20-5.53) and WHR (OR: 3.66, 95% CI: 2.96-4.16) and depression.
Besides, the association between anxiety and BMI (OR: 2.26, 95% CI: 1.87-5.84), BFM (OR: 2.07, 95% CI: 0.79-3.40) and WHR (OR: 2.60, 95% CI: 1.94-2.59) also were significantly positive. In contrast, similar to depression a reverse association were found between FFM (OR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.49-0.65) with anxiety respectively (OR: 0.42, 95% CI: 0/35-0/59), (OR: 0.52, 95% CI: 0.49-0.65).
Results obtained from modeling DII as a continuous variable identified a positive association between DII with BMI (OR: 1.43, 95% CI: 1.22-2.99), BFM (OR: 3.22, 95% CI: 1.1-5.9) and WHR (OR: 1.15, 95% CI: 1.05-3.39). Also, reverse association between DII with FFM (OR: 0.46, 95% CI: 0.11-0.62) and SLM (OR: 0.32, 95% CI: 0.04, 0.51) were seen.
Conclusion:
The present study showed that there is significant positive association among anthropometric measurements and anxiety and depression in adolescent girls. Furthermore, association between anthropometric measurements and DII were positive. Although, no association was found between the DII, depression and anxiety, girls with higher DII had more chance to have higher anthropometric measurements.