A prospective study of inflammatory cytokines as common factors in the aetiology of both depression and osteoporosis.

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/509103

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Both depression and osteoporosis are common, debilitating and expensive diseases and there is research to suggest that these conditions are related. This study will examine a potential common mechanism, inflammation, which may underlie both diseases. It will focus on circulating proteins which are associated with both depression and fragility fractures, and examine the role they play in both disorders.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2008

End Date: 01-01-2010

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $291,230.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Psychiatry

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

cytokines | depression | depressive disorder | major depression | mood disorder | mood disorders | osteoporosis | population health | psychiatric disorders

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