Abstract
The authors examined whether cerebrovascular risk factors (CVRFs) are associated with depressive diagnoses and symptoms in 303 primary-care patients age ≥60 years, as would be consistent with a small-vessel brain disease model of later-life depression. CVRFs were not significantly independently associated with major, minor, or subsyndromal depression, late- onset major depression, or overall depressive symptom severity. These data did not support the notion that a small-vessel brain disease model of depression might apply to the majority of older persons with depressive symptoms and syndromes in primary-care settings. Future work should include longitudinal study with larger sample sizes.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 252-258 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1999 |
| Externally published | Yes |
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- Geriatrics and Gerontology
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Cerebrovascular risk factors and depression in older primary care patients. / Lyness, J. M.; Caine, E. D.; King, D. A.; Conwell, Y.; Cox, Christopher; Duberstein, P. R.
In: American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, Vol. 7, No. 3, 1999, p. 252-258.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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AU - Duberstein, P. R.
PY - 1999
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