Magdalena Żebrowska, Susanne Strohmaier, Carri Westgarth, Curtis Huttenhower, Heather A Eliassen, Shahab Haghayegh, Tianyi Huang, Francine Laden, Jaime Hart, Bernard Rosner, Ichiro Kawachi, Jorge E Chavarro, Olivia I Okereke, Eva S Schernhammer
BACKGROUND: We examined associations between dog ownership, morning dog walking and its timing and duration, and depression risk in female nurses, exploring effect modification by chronotype. We hypothesized that dog ownership and morning walking with the dog are associated with lower odds of depression, and that the latter is particularly beneficial for evening chronotypes by helping them to synchronize their biological clock with the solar system. METHODS: 26,169 depression-free US women aged 53-72 from the Nurses' Health Study 2 (NHS2) were prospectively followed from 2017-2019...
2024: PloS One