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Impact of depressive symptoms on hospitalization risk in community dwelling older persons
Author(s)	Benjamin Y Huang, Joan Cornoni-Huntley, Judith C Hays
Journal title	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 48, no 10, October 2000
Pages	pp 1279-1284
Keywords	Depression ; Symptoms ; Living in the community ; Admission [hospitals] ; United States of America.
Annotation	Data was examined on hospitalisation and health of some 3,500 over 65s living at home from the Duke University, North Carolina (NC) site of the Established Populations for Epidemiological Studies of the Elderly project (EPESE). 300 of the participants were admitted to hospital during this 6-month study. Depressive symptoms were independently associated with a more than threefold increased risk for hospital admissions for men aged 75+. This result reflects differences in the effects of depressive symptoms across age and gender groups, and emphasises that symptoms of depression influence overall health and medical service use among, at least, the oldest male age group. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001211208 A
Classmark	ENR: CT: K4: LD:QKH: 7T
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