Open AccessDepression leads to incident vascular disease: evidence for the relevance to primary care
Author(s) -
Jeffrey F. Scherrer,
Joanne Salas,
Jay Brieler,
Bobbi J. Miller,
Dixie Meyer,
Frank Schneider
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
family practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.955
H-Index - 100
eISSN - 1460-2229
pISSN - 0263-2136
DOI - 10.1093/fampra/cmu092
Subject(s) - medicine , depression (economics) , hazard ratio , proportional hazards model , confidence interval , confounding , odds ratio , disease , medical record , vascular disease , emergency medicine , economics , macroeconomics
Depression is a known risk factor for vascular disease in community cohorts and in large, system-wide, health care databases. It is not known if the association between depression and incident vascular disease exists when patient data is restricted to depression presenting in primary care.