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SUBMITTER: Lueno M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9314777 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lueno Marian M Dobrowolny Henrik H Gescher Dorothee D Gbaoui Laila L Meyer-Lotz Gabriele G Hoeschen Christoph C Frodl Thomas T
Frontiers in psychiatry 20220712
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a widespread common disorder. Up to now, there are no easy and frequent to use non-invasive biomarkers that could guide the diagnosis and treatment of MDD. The aim of this study was to investigate whether there are different mass concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the exhaled breath between patients with MDD and healthy controls. For this purpose, patients with MDD according to DSM-V and healthy subjects were investigated. VOCs contained in ...[more]