Depressive symptoms and 6-year mortality among elderly community- dwelling women

Epidemiology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 54-59

  Fredman, Lisa ^a,b   Magaziner, Jay ^a   Hebel, J Richard ^a   Hawkes, William ^a   Zimmerman, Sheryl I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Aged; Cohort study; Depression; Mortality; Survival analysis; Women

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MARRIAGE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0032924483     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-199901000-00010     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Kaplan GA, Reynolds P. Depression and cancer mortality and morbidity: prospective evidence from the Alameda County study. J Behav Med 1988; 11:1-13.
2. Markush RE, Schwab JJ, Farris P, Present PA, Holzer CED. Mortality and community mental health. The Alachua County, Florida, mortality study. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1977;34:1393-1401.
3. Murphy JM, Olivier DC, Sobol AM, Monson RR, Leighton AH. Diagnosis and outcome: depression and anxiety in a general population. Psychol Med 1986;16:117-126.
4. Bruce ML, Leaf PJ. Psychiatric disorders and 15-month mortality in a community sample of older adults. Am J Public Health 1989;79:727-730.
5. Bruce ML, Leaf PJ, Rozal GP, Florio L, Hoff RA. Psychiatric status and 9-year mortality data in the New Haven Epidemiologic Catchment Area Study. Am J Psychiatry 1994;151(5):716-721.
6. Anda R, Williamson D, Jones D, Macera C, Eaker E, Glassman A, Marks J. Depressed affect, hopelessness, and the risk of ischemic heart disease in a cohort of U. S. adults. Epidemiology 1993;4:285-294.
7. Vogt T, Pope C, Mullooly J, Hollis J. Mental health status as a predictor of morbidity and mortality: a 15-year follow-up of members of a health maintenance organization. Am J Public Health 1994;84:227-231.
8. Brill PA, Kohl HW, Blair SN. Anxiety, depression, physical fitness, and all-cause mortality in men. J Psychosom Res 1992;36:267-273.
9. Carney RM, Rich MW, Freedland KE, Saini J, teVelde A, Simeone C, Clark K. Major depressive disorder predicts cardiac events in patients with coronary artery disease. Psychosom Med 1988;50:627-33.
10. Frasure-Smith N, Lesperance F, Talajic M. Depression and 18-month prognosis after myocardial infarction. Circulation 1995;91:999-1005.
11. Morris PL, Robinson RG, Andrzejewski P, Samuels J, Price TR. Association of depression with 10-year poststroke mortality. Am J Psychiatry 1993;150: 124-129.
12. Burvill P, Hall W. Predictors of increased mortality in elderly depressed patients. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 1994;9:219-227.
13. Kivela S-L, Kimmo P, Pekka L. A one-year prognosis of dysthymic disorder and major depression in old age. Int J Geriatric Psychiatry 1991;6:81-87.
14. Murphy E, Smith R, Lindesay J, Slattery J. Increased mortality rates in late-life depression. Br J Psychiatr 1988;152:347-353.
15. Enzell K. Mortality among persons with depressive symptoms and among responders and non-responders in a health check-up. An investigation of persons born in 1905 and followed up from age 66 to 75. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1984;69:89-102.
16. Nielsen J, Homma A, Biorn-Henriksen T. Follow-up 15 years after a geronto-psychiatric prevalence study. Conditions concerning death, cause of death, and life expectancy in relation to psychiatric diagnosis. J Gerontol 1977;32:554-61.
17. Persson G. Five-year mortality in a 70-year-old urban population in relation to psychiatric diagnosis, personality, sexuality and early parental death. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1981;64:244-253.
18. Blazer DG. Social support and mortality in an elderly community population. Am J Epidemiol 1982;115:684-94.
19. Fredman L, Schoenbach VJ, Kaplan BH, Blazer DG, James SA, Kleinbaum DG, Yankaskas B. The association between depressive symptoms and mortality among older participants in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area-Piedmont Health Survey. J Gerontol 1989;44:S1:49-56.
20. Thomas C, Kelman HR, Kennedy GJ, Ahn C, Yang CY. Depressive symptoms and mortality in elderly persons. J Gerontol 1992;47:S80-S87.
21. Zuckerman DM, Kasl SV, Ostfeld AM. Psychosocial predictors of mortality among the elderly poor. The role of religion, well-being, and social contacts. Am J Epidemiol 1984;119:410-423.
22. Zonderman AB, Costa PT, Jr., McCrae RR. Depression as a risk for cancer morbidity and mortality in a nationally representative sample. JAMA 1989; 262:1191-1195.
23. Gallo JJ, Rabins PV, Lyketsos CG, Tien AY, Anthony JC. Depression without sadness: functional outcomes of nondysphoric depression in later life. J Am Geriatr Soc 1997;45:570-578.
24. Rovner BW, German PS, Brant LJ, Clark R, Burton L, Folstein MF. Depression and mortality in nursing homes. JAMA 1991;265:993-996.
25. Koenig HG, Shelp F, Goli V, Cohen HJ, Blazer DG. Survival and health care utilization in elderly medical inpatients with major depression. J Am Geriatr Soc 1989;37:599-606.
26. Schleifer SJ, Keller SE, Bond RN, Cohen J, Stein M. Major depressive disorder and immunity. Role of age, sex, severity, and hospitalisation. Arch Gen Psychiatry 1989;46:81-87.
27. Bruce ML, Seeman TE, Merrill SS, Blazer DG. The impact of depressive symptomatology on physical disability: MacArthur Studies of Successful Aging. Am J Public Health 1994;84:1796-1799.
28. Finch EJ, Ramsay R, Katona CL. Depression and physical illness in the elderly. Clin Geriatr Med 1992;8:275-287.
29. Santor DA, Coyne JC. Shortening the CES-D to improve its ability to detect cases of depression. Psychol Assess 1997;9:233-243.
30. Weissman MM, Sholomskas D, Pottenger M, Prusoff BA, Locke BZ. Assessing depressive symptoms in five psychiatric populations: a validation study. Am J Epidemiol 1977;106:203-214.
31. Magaziner J, Cadigan DA, Hebel JR, Parry RE. Health and living arrangements among older women: does living alone increase the risk of illness? J Gerontol 1988;43:M1:27-33.
32. Radloff L. The CES-D scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Appl Psychol Measurement 1977;1:385-401.
33. Development of Multidimensional Functional Assessment: the OARS Methodology. Durham, NC: Duke University Center for the Study of Aging and Human Development, 1978.
34. Folstein MF, Folstein SE, McHugh PR. "Mini-mental state". A practical method for grading the cognitive state of patients for the clinician. J Psychiatr Res 1975;12;189-198.
35. Seeman TE. Social ties and health: the benefits of social integration. Ann Epidemiol 1996;6:442-451.