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Abstract
The study revealed that obesity is associated with higher incidence of depression in adolescent males where (60%) of obese adolescent males had mild depression and (6.7%) of them had moderate depression, while all non obese adolescent males (100%) were not depressed.
Also, there was a significant difference in mean free testosterone levels between obese adolescents with depressive symptoms and obese adolescents without depressive symptoms where the mean of free testosterone levels was lower in obese adolescents who had the following depressive symptoms: feeling depressed, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, feeling restless, feeling guilty, poor concentration and suicidality, while the mean free testosterone level was higher in obese adolescents who had the following depressive symptoms: loss of interest and feeling tired.
Also, there were negative significant correlations between mild, moderate depression (according to CDI) and hormonal levels of free testosterone in obese adolescents males and there were significant negative correlations between free testosterone level and the following depressive symptoms (according to MINI-KID module A); feeling depressed, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, feeling restless, feeling guilty, poor concentration and suicidality, while there were significant positive correlations between mean free testosterone level and the following depressive symptoms; loss of interest and feeling tired.
Keywords: Hypothalamic – pituitary – gonadal- Luteinizing hormone- Monoamine oxidase inhibitors- Tricyclic antidepressants- Nucleus of the tractus solitarius