Six-Year Effect of Depressive Symptoms on the Course of Physical Disability in Community-Living Older Adults
Author(s) -
Diane CroninStubbs,
Carlos F. Mendes de Leon,
Laurel Beckett,
Terry S. Field,
Robert J. Glynn,
Denis A. Evans
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
archives of internal medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3679
pISSN - 0003-9926
DOI - 10.1001/archinte.160.20.3074
Subject(s) - odds ratio , confidence interval , medicine , depression (economics) , population , odds , gerontology , demography , geriatric depression scale , epidemiology , center for epidemiologic studies depression scale , logistic regression , psychiatry , depressive symptoms , environmental health , cognition , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Late-life depression affects physical health and impedes recovery from physical disability. But whether milder symptoms that occur frequently in the general population increase the risk of developing a disability or decrease the likelihood of recovery remains unclear.
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