Metabolic syndrome: a risk factor for depression?

How can it be?

"Components of metabolic syndrome include high cholesterol and triglyceride levels, low levels of 'good' HDL cholesterol, high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and excess belly fat.

According to Koponen and colleagues, non-depressed subjects at the start of the study who were found to have the metabolic syndrome were twice as likely as those without the metabolic syndrome to have symptoms of depression at follow-up 7 years later."

Wonder what it is about being a fat, sick lump of lard that could depress someone.

"'In the future, new long-term studies are needed to elucidate the long-term course and prognosis, proper treatment and specific symptom picture of depression related to metabolic syndrome,' the investigators write."

Right.

Or people could just lose weight instead of wasting money on more stupid research.

That is the "proper treatment," morons.