Relationship Between Body Mass Index (BMI) and Depression Among the General Population of Al-Madinah Al-Munawwarah, Saudi Arabia.

Cureus · 2025 · PMC12335736 · PMID 40786416

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close to significancep=0.09so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

Both our mean depressive scores ranged close to significance (p=0.09 in Mann-Whitney U test; p=0.077 in multivariate logistic analysis) - perhaps an increase in the number of participants and thus a higher powered study may have resulted in an association.

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