Sex Differences in the Joint Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Body Mass Index From Adolescence to Early Adulthood: Longitudinal Observational Study

Jing Chen   ¹ , PhD ;   Rui Shan   ¹ , MD ;   Wen Yuan   ² , PhD ;   Qiong Wu   ³ , PhD ;   Yang Yang   ¹ , MD ;   Yi-Hang Yang   ¹ , MD ;   Jing-Yao Liu   ¹ , MD ;   Wu-Cai Xiao   ¹ , MD ;   Shanghang Zhang   ⁴ , PhD ;   Li-Ming Wen   ⁵ , PhD ;   Xiao-Rui Zhang   ^{6 *} , PhD ;   Zheng Liu   ^* , PhD ;   Zheng Liu   ^{1 *} , PhD ;   Yi Song   ² , PhD

¹ Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

² Institute of Child and Adolescent Health, School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing, China

³ Institute of Social Science Survey, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁴ The School of Computer Science, Peking University, Beijing, China

⁵ School of Public Health, The Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

⁶ Department of Pediatrics, Peking University People’s Hospital, Beijing, China

*these authors contributed equally