Depression and its Association with Vitamin D Deficiency: A Review
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depression, vitamin D deficiency, mental health, neuronal differentiation, neurotransmitters
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Depression is a common psychological disorder and a major health issue. Many socioeconomic, environmental and genetic factors contribute to the onset and progression of depression. In recent years, the deficiency of vitamin D has emerged as a possible predisposing factor responsible for the manifestation of depression. In this review article, the causes of depression are briefly reviewed with a special focus on the association between vitamin D and depression. In recent years, the association between vitamin D and depression has been extensively investigated; still, the mechanism that governs this association is not fully understood. An understanding of the underlying biological processes and mechanisms through which vitamin D exerts its role will help in understanding the predisposition towards depression and the amelioration of depressive symptoms.
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1- Grover S, Dutt A, and Avasthi A: An overview of Indian research in depression Indian J Psychiatry. 2010 Jan; 52(Suppl1): S178–S188.
2- Ferrari AJ, Norman RE, Freedman G, et al. The burden attributable to mental and substance use disorders as risk factors for suicide: findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010. PLoS ONE. 2014;9:e91936
3- Ahmed D, Helmi I El S, Taher E, Zyada F: Prevalence and predictors of depression and anxiety among the elderly population living in geriatric homes in Cairo, Egypt 2014 Dec;89(3):127-35. J Egypt Public Health Assoc
4- Puthran R, Zhang MW, Tam WW, Ho RC. Prevalence of depression amongst medical students: a meta-analysis. Med Educ. 2016;50(4):456–468.
5- Rosen D, Mascaro N, Arnau R, Escamilla M , Ming T et al., Depression in Medical Students: Gene-Environment Interaction Annals of Behavioral Science and Medical Education ©2010 by the Association for the Behavioral Sciences and Medical Education 2010, Vol. 16, No. 2, 8-14 1075-1211/10 .
6- Alharbi H, Almalki A, Alabdan F, and Haddad B: Depression among medical students in Saudi medical colleges: a cross-sectional study Adv Med Educ Pract. 2018; 9: 887–891.
7- -George M and Wetzel E D. Depression among medical students Panel Volume 11, Issue 1, July–August 1986, Pages 91-96 Journal of affective disorder
8- Pham T, Bui L, Nguyen A, Nguyen B et al. : The prevalence of depression and associated risk factors among medical students: An untold story in Vietnam . PLoS One 2019 Aug 20;14(8):e0221432.
9- AlJaber M I: The prevalence and associated factors of depression among medical students of Saudi Arabia: A systematic review 2020 Jun 30;9(6):2608-2614. J Family Med Prim Care.
10- Young EA. Sex differences and the HPA axis: implications for psychiatric disease. J Gend Specif Med. 1998;1:21–27. [PubMed] [Google Scholar]
11- Robb C E. , de Jager C A. , Ahmadi-Abhari S, Giannakopoulou et al, Associations of Social Isolation with Anxiety and Depression During the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: A Survey of Older Adults in London, UK Front. Psychiatry, 17 September 2020
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13- Gold PW, Chrousos GP. The endocrinology of melancholic and atypical depression: relation to neurocircuitry and somatic consequences. Proceedings of the Association of American Physicians. 1999;111:22–34.
14- Dantzer R, O’Connor JC, Freund GG. From inflammation to sickness and depression: when the immune system subjugates the brain. Nature Rev Neurosci. 2008;9:46–56.
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29- Whiteman H Vitamin D deficiency linked to poor brain function, death after cardiac arrest. [Jul;2018 https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/283971
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37- Bathina S and Das U N. Arch Med Sci. 2015 Dec 10; 11(6): 1164–1178. Brain derived neurotrophic factor and its clinical implications
38- Banerjee D Social isolation in Covid-19: The impact of loneliness Internaional Journal of Social Psychiatry 66(9):002076402092226
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2020-12-15
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Shoukry, H. S. (2020). Depression and its Association with Vitamin D Deficiency: A Review. BioScientific Review, 2(4), 34-42. https://doi.org/10.32350/BSR.0204.04
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