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Association of depression and gender with mortality in old age
— results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL) | | Author(s) | R A Schoevers, M I Geerlings, A T F Beekman |
| Journal title | The British Journal of Psychiatry, vol 177, October 2000 |
| Pages | pp 336-342 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Death ; Older men ; Older women ; Correlation ; Netherlands. |
| Annotation | The association between depression and increased mortality risk in older people may depend on the severity of the depressive disorder and gender. Depression (Geriatric Mental State, GMS-AGECAT) was assessed in 4051 older people from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL), with a 6-year follow-up of community death registers. 75% of men and 41% of women with psychotic depression had died at follow-up. Neurotic depression was associated with a 1.67-fold higher mortality risk in men only. In older people, major depressive syndromes increase the risk of death in both men and women, but mild depression increases the risk of death only in men. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-001025203 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CW: BC: BD: 49: 76H |
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