Author:
Rampersaud Ryan,Wu Gwyneth W. Y.,Reus Victor I.,Lin Jue,Blackburn Elizabeth H.,Epel Elissa S.,Hough Christina M.,Mellon Synthia H.,Wolkowitz Owen M.
Abstract
AbstractTelomere length (TL) is a marker of biological aging, and shorter telomeres have been associated with several medical and psychiatric disorders, including cardiometabolic dysregulation and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). In addition, studies have shown shorter TL to be associated with poorer response to certain psychotropic medications, and our previous work suggested shorter TL and higher telomerase activity (TA) predicts poorer response to Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI) treatment. Using a new group of unmedicated medically healthy individuals with MDD (n = 48), we sought to replicate our prior findings demonstrating that peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) TL and TA predict response to SSRI treatment and to identify associations between TL and TA with biological stress mediators and cardiometabolic risk indices. Our results demonstrate that longer pre-treatment TL was associated with better response to SSRI treatment (β = .407p = .007). Additionally, we observed that TL had a negative relationship with allostatic load (β = − .320p = .017) and a cardiometabolic risk score (β = − .300p = .025). Our results suggest that PBMC TL reflects, in part, the cumulative effects of physiological stress and cardiovascular risk in MDD and may be a biomarker for predicting SSRI response.
Funder
Tinberg Family
UCSF Research Evaluation and Allocation Committee
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health/National Center for Research Resources
National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, NIH
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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