Marked differences in antidepressant use by race in an elderly community sample: 1986-1996

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 157, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1089-1094

  Blazer, Dan G ^a   Hybels, Celia F ^b   Simonsick, Eleanor M ^b   Hanlon, Joseph T ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMFEBUTAMONE; AMITRIPTYLINE; AMOXAPINE; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DESIPRAMINE; DOXEPIN; FLUOXETINE; IMIPRAMINE; MAPROTILINE; NEFAZODONE; NORTRIPTYLINE; PAROXETINE; SERTRALINE; TRAZODONE; TRIMIPRAMINE; VENLAFAXINE;

ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; DRUG USE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEGRO; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DRUG UTILIZATION; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; PRESCRIPTIONS, DRUG; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS;

EID: 0033930104     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.157.7.1089     Document Type: Article

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