Six-year survival of depressed elderly Finns: A community study

International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry

Volumn 12, Issue 9, 1997, Pages 942-950

  Pulska, Tuula ^a   Pahkala, Kimmo ^b   Laippala, Pekka ^c   Kivelä, Sirkka Liisa ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

^b Dept of Social Welfare and Health   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TAMPERE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Aged; Depression; Depressive disorder; Mortality

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DYSTHYMIA; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FINLAND; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; NORMAL HUMAN; PROBABILITY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SMOKING; SURVIVAL TIME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; ODDS RATIO; POLYPHARMACY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SMOKING; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030961093     PISSN: 08856230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1166(199709)12:9<942::AID-GPS668>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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