| The association between atopic disorders and depression: The Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort Study | ||
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When the most severe manifestation of both atopic and depressive disorders were examined, the results (Table 4) showed that hospital-treated atopic disorders increased the probability of hospital-treated depression up to three-fold (OR 3.0, 95% CI 1.4–6.6) after controlling for gender and sociodemographic characteristics of the cohort members (I: Table 1).
Table 4. The association between hospital-treated atopic disorders and hospital-treated depression among the Northern Finland 1966 Birth Cohort members and their sociodemographic factors (I: Table 1).
| Variables | Depression (n = 64) | No mental disorders (n = 10423) | Adjusted Odds ratio* | ||
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| n | % | n | % | OR (95% CI) | |
| Atopic disease in FHDR | |||||
| Yes | 7 | 10.9 | 412 | 4.0 | 3.0 (1.4–6.6) |
| No (reference) | 57 | 89.1 | 10011 | 96.0 | |
| Sociodemographic factors | |||||
| Sex | |||||
| Male | 35 | 54.7 | 5262 | 50.5 | 1.2 (0.7–1.9) |
| Female (reference) | 29 | 45.3 | 5161 | 49.5 | |
| Paternal social class in 1966 | |||||
| Lower | 51 | 79.7 | 7645 | 73.3 | 2.5 (0.6–10.2) |
| Farmers | 11 | 17.2 | 2020 | 19.4 | 1.9 (0.4–8.7) |
| Upper (reference) | 2 | 3.1 | 758 | 7.3 | |
| Dwelling place 1980 | |||||
| Urban | 40 | 62.5 | 4467 | 42.9 | 1.3 (0.8–2.1) |
| Rural (reference) | 24 | 37.5 | 5956 | 57.1 | |
| *Variables in logistic regression: Sex, father’s social class in 1966, dwelling place in 1980, and atopic disease according to the Finnish Hospital Discharge Register (FHDR). Dependent variable: Depression vs. no mental disorders according to the FHDR. | |||||