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| Medical comorbidity in late-life depression | | Author(s) | Warren D Taylor, Douglas R McQuoid, K Ranga Rama Krishnan |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 19, no 10, October 2004 |
| Pages | pp 935-943 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Chronic illness ; Hypertension ; Correlation ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Medical comorbidity is common in older patients with depression. However, the difference between depressed and non-depressed older populations is not well-established. The authors compared self-report of medical disorders between 370 depressed older people and 157 non-depressed control subjects. Subjects were additionally dichotomised based on presence or absence of subcortical magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) lesions and age of onset. Medical comorbidity was assessed by self-report only, and depressed subjects were additionally assessed by the Clinician-rated Cumulative Illness Rating Scale. When compared with the non-depressed group, depressed subjects were significantly more likely to report the presence of hypertension, heart disease, gastrointestinal ulcers, and "hardening of the arteries". Analyses of those with subcortical disease demonstrated they were significantly older, more likely to have depression, and more likely to report the presence of hypertension. Finally, the depressed cohort with late-onset depression (occurring after age 50) had more male subjects, exhibited greater CIRS scores, and greater prevalence of hypertension, but this did not reach a level of statistical significance after applying a Bonferroni correction. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-041209504 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CI: CQQ: 49: 7T |
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