Association of depression and gender with mortality in old age: Results from the Amsterdam Study of the Elderly (AMSTEL)

British Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 177, Issue OCT., 2000, Pages 336-342

  Schoevers, R A ^a   Geerlings, M I ^a   Beekman, A T F ^a   Penninx, B W J H ^a   Deeg, D J H ^a   Jonker, C ^a   Van Tilburg, W ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FITNESS; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANIC DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY; NETHERLANDS; PHYSICAL DISEASE; REGISTER; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T;

EID: 0033794251     PISSN: 00071250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1192/bjp.177.4.336     Document Type: Article

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