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| Do depressive symptoms predict Alzheimer's disease and dementia? | | Author(s) | Jennifer L Gatz, Suzanne L Tyas, Philip St John |
| Journal title | Journals of Gerontology: Series A, Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences, vol 60A, no 6, June 2005 |
| Pages | pp 744-747 |
| Source | http://www.geron.org |
| Keywords | Depression ; Symptoms ; Dementia ; Evaluation ; Longitudinal surveys ; Canada. |
| Annotation | Depressive symptoms are common in older people and may predict dementia. The authors evaluated the association of incident Alzheimer's disease (AD) and dementia with multiple measures of depressive symptoms using data from the Manitoba Study of Health and Aging (MSHA), a study of 766 people aged 65+ in 1991-1992 who were also followed up 5 years later. Measurements considered were the Center for Epidemiologic Studies - Depression (CES-D) scale, participant-reported medical history, and duration of depression. Because depressive symptoms as measured by the CES-D predict the development of AD and dementia over 5 years, clinicians should monitor their older patients with those symptoms for signs of cognitive impairment. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051103209 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CT: EA: 4C: 3J: 7S |
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