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Mental disorders and asthma in the elderly
— a population-based study | | Author(s) | Tze-Pin Ng, Peak-Chiang Chiam, Ee-Heok Kua |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 22, no 7, July 2007 |
| Pages | pp 668-674 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com |
| Keywords | Asthma ; Depression ; Anxiety ; Diagnosis ; Dementia ; Early ; Evaluation ; Cross sectional surveys ; Singapore. |
| Annotation | Clinical studies have mostly linked anxiety disorders with asthma in young patients, but the data are inconsistent for depression. Few population-based studies have investigated the comorbid diagnoses of mental disorders with asthma in older people. In a cross-sectional study of 1092 people aged 60+ in Singapore, the diagnoses of recent depression and anxiety were made using the Geriatric Mental State (GMS) Schedule. The presence of asthma was ascertained by self-report. Asthma was associated with a higher prevalence of depressive disorders, when compared with non-asthmatic controls; and when comparing against controls with other chronic illnesses after adjusting for psychosocial factors, physical comorbidity and use of depression-causing drugs. The authors observed that asthma in older people was more evidently associated comorbidly with depression, rather than anxiety disorder. However, possible associations with anxiety and dementia are not excluded and should be further investigated. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-071113210 A |
| Classmark | CNA: ENR: ENP: LK7: EA: 4J: 4C: 3KB: 7XD |
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