Copyright (c) 2024 Revista médico científica
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Depression can be defined as a pathological emotional condition characterized for exaggerated feelings of sadness, dejected, emptiness and despair that does not present any explicable and real cause or reason.
Objetive: to determine the relation that overweight, smoking, low economic income, conjugal failure and menopause have with the first major depressive episode, among women attended at the Metropolitan Hospital Dr. Amulfo Arias Madrid (C.H.M.Dr.A.A.M.) between August and December, 2001. (102 cases and 100 controls).
Methodology: A case/control, unmatched, transversal analytical study was made. The cases were the total of the patients attended between August and December (2001) with the final diagnostic of first major depressive episode. The controls were gathered through a close inquires (interviews).
Results: For the overweight variable it was found an OR: 2.18 (42% of the cases with this condition); smoking throw a range of OR: 4.13 (79% of the cases were referred to smoking); for the conjugal failure it was gathered an OR: 5.35 (81% ofthe cases were under this definition). Low economic income shows an OR: 0.20 and menopause OR: 0.23.
Discussion: It had been established that overweight brings a social stigma which develops the first major depressive episode in women; that smoking involves a phisiopathological mechanism within the development of the studied effect; in a like manner the conjugal failure brings a loss feeling on the patients, predisposing them to develop the iliness, due to the similarity found in the results of these variables in comparison with the results of previous studies. In regard to the menopause variable and the low economic income, the studies infer that both conditions grant protection to the development of the studied pathology.
