Gender differences in the clinical features of unipolar major depressive disorder

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 178, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 200-203

  Young, Michael A ^a   Scheftner, William A ^a   Fawcett, Jan ^a   Klerman, Gerald L ^b  

^a RUSH UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; FEMALE; GENDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0025327562     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: 1539736X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-199003000-00008     Document Type: Article

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