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Study M529

Study name

Huang TY 2020

Title

Associations of depression status with plasma levels of candidate lipid and amino acid metabolites: a meta-analysis of individual data from three independent samples of US postmenopausal women

Overall design

In this study, cross-sectional data from three independent samples of postmenopausal women were analyzed, including women from the Women’s Health Initiative-Observational Study (WHI-OS, n = 926), the WHI-Hormone Trials (WHI-HT; n = 1,325), and the Nurses’ Health Study II Mind-Body Study (NHSII-MBS; n = 218). Positive depression status was defined as having any of the following: elevated depressive symptoms, antidepressant use, or depression history. Plasma metabolites were measured using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (21 phosphatidylcholines, 7 lysophosphatidylethanolamines, 5 ceramides, 3 branched chain amino acids, and 9 neurotransmitters).

Study Type

Type1;

Data available

Unavailable

Organism

Human;

Categories of depression

Depressive symptom; Depressive symptom; Depressive symptom;

Criteria for depression

Elevated depressive symptoms, antidepressant use, or depression history

Sample size

2469

Tissue

Peripheral; Blood; Plasma;

Platform

MS-based; LC-MS/MS: Shimadzu Nexera X2 U-HPLC to an Exactive Plus orbitrap mass spectrometer and a Q Exactive hybrid quadrupole orbitrap mass spectrometer;

PMID

32859999

DOI

10.1038/s41380-020-00870-9

Citation

Huang T, Balasubramanian R, Yao Y, et al. Associations of depression status with plasma levels of candidate lipid and amino acid metabolites: a meta-analysis of individual data from three independent samples of US postmenopausal women. Mol Psychiatry. 2020.

Metabolite

L-Tryptophan;

L-Glutamic acid;

PC(36:1);

PC(38:3);

GABA/Glutamine ratio;

GABA/Glutamate ratio;