American psychologists and physiologists from the University of California at San Francisco studied the connection between depression and changes in body temperature. The study was published in the scientific journal magazine Scientific Reports (SciRep).
During the study, experts examined data from 20,880 people from the TemPredict Study database, which was originally created to diagnose COVID-19 disease.
The researchers found that higher levels of depressive symptoms were consistently associated with higher body temperature. This correlation was observed for both self-reported and objective temperature measurements.
This model suggests a consistent relationship between high body temperature and the presence of depressive symptoms and supports the hypothesis that impaired thermoregulation may play a role in depression.
Scientists have noted a decrease in the ability to induce thermoregulatory cooling or an increase in metabolic heat production, or a combination of both, as mechanisms underlying the temperature increase observed in people with depression.
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Source: Gazeta
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