TY - JOUR
T1 - Vascular depression prevalence and epidemiology in the United States
AU - González, Hector M.
AU - Tarraf, Wassim
AU - Whitfield, Keith
AU - Gallo, Joseph J.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health , National Institute of Mental Health , National Heart Lung Blood Institute and the National Institute on Aging . Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the NIH. Drs. González, Tarraf and Whitfield are supported by the NIMH (R01) MH 84994 ; Drs. González and Tarraf also receive support from NHLBI HC 65233 ; Dr. Gallo is supported by R01 MH 65539 and K24 MH 70407 .
PY - 2012/4
Y1 - 2012/4
N2 - Objective: To examine and describe vascular depression epidemiology in the United States. Methods: Cross-sectional data from a national probability sample of household resident adults (18-years and older; N = 16,423) living in the 48 coterminous United States were analyzed to calculate prevalence estimates of vascular depression, associated disability and treatment rates. In this study, vascular depression was defined as the presence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and CVD major risk factors (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and obesity) among adults 50-years and older who also met 12-month DSM-IV major depression criteria. Results: We estimated that about 3.4% or approximately 2.64 million American adults 50-years and older met our criteria for vascular depression. Among adults who met criteria for lifetime major depression, over one-in-five (22.1%) were considered to have the vascular depression subtype. Secondly, vascular depression was associated with significantly increased functional impairment relative to the non-depressed population and adults meeting criteria for major depression alone. Although depression care use was significantly higher among vascular depression respondents relative to those with major depression alone, practice guideline concordant therapy use was not. Conclusions: Vascular depression appears to be an important public health problem that affects a large portion of the U.S. adult population with major depression, and that it is associated with excess functional impairment without concomitant better depression care.
AB - Objective: To examine and describe vascular depression epidemiology in the United States. Methods: Cross-sectional data from a national probability sample of household resident adults (18-years and older; N = 16,423) living in the 48 coterminous United States were analyzed to calculate prevalence estimates of vascular depression, associated disability and treatment rates. In this study, vascular depression was defined as the presence of cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease (CVD) and CVD major risk factors (e.g., diabetes, hypertension, heart disease, and obesity) among adults 50-years and older who also met 12-month DSM-IV major depression criteria. Results: We estimated that about 3.4% or approximately 2.64 million American adults 50-years and older met our criteria for vascular depression. Among adults who met criteria for lifetime major depression, over one-in-five (22.1%) were considered to have the vascular depression subtype. Secondly, vascular depression was associated with significantly increased functional impairment relative to the non-depressed population and adults meeting criteria for major depression alone. Although depression care use was significantly higher among vascular depression respondents relative to those with major depression alone, practice guideline concordant therapy use was not. Conclusions: Vascular depression appears to be an important public health problem that affects a large portion of the U.S. adult population with major depression, and that it is associated with excess functional impairment without concomitant better depression care.
KW - Cardiovascular disease
KW - Depression
KW - Epidemiology
KW - Major depressive disorder
KW - Stroke.
KW - Vascular depression
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.01.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2012.01.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 22277303
AN - SCOPUS:84858296869
SN - 0022-3956
VL - 46
SP - 456
EP - 461
JO - Journal of Psychiatric Research
JF - Journal of Psychiatric Research
IS - 4
ER -