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| Association between depression and cognitive impairment in aged male war veterans | | Author(s) | O F Dent, A F Jorm, C Tennant |
| Journal title | Aging & Mental Health, vol 2, no 4, November 1998 |
| Pages | pp 306-312 |
| Source | http://www.tandfonline.com |
| Keywords | Depression ; Dementia ; Longitudinal surveys ; Australia. |
| Annotation | The association between both depressive symptoms and depressive disorder and subsequent cognitive performance and incident dementia was examined in this study. Participants were randomly selected male veterans of World War II living in Sydney, Australia in 1982, and those surviving were interviewed again in 1991. Depressive disorder and dementia were diagnosed clinically. Depressive symptoms were assessed by a standard self-completed scale. Cognitive performance was assessed by 18 standard neuropsychological tests representing a range of mental functions. There was essentially no predictive and no concurrent association between depressive disorder and cognitive performance. There was a marginal correlation between depressive disorder in 1982 and dementia in 1991 but no concurrent association in 1991. Initially, depressive symptoms appeared to be associated with cognitive impairment, both predictively and concurrently. However, when verbal intelligence was controlled, the predictive association disappeared for all but two cognitive performance tests and the concurrent association weakened distinctly across all tests. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-990125407 A |
| Classmark | ENR: EA: 3J: 7YA |
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