Relationship between low blood pressure and depressive symptomatology in older people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 250-255

  Stroup Benham, Christine A ^a,b   Markides, Kyriakos S ^a   Black, Sandra A ^a   Goodwin, James S ^a  

^a University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Depression; Hispanics; Hypotension; Mexican Americans; Older persons

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ETHNIC GROUP; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; RATING SCALE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

EID: 0034068577     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2000.tb02642.x     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Pemberton J. Does constitutional hypotension exist? BMJ 1989;298:660-662.
2. Valenti PF, Mazzei ES. Medicina Interna. Barcelona: Manuel Marin, 1956.
3. Anguissola AB, Pandolfo G. Sindromi ipotensive. In: Teodori U, ed. Trattato di Patalogia Medica. Rome: Societa Ed Universitaria-Roma, 1981, pp 2825-2833.
4. Dimsdale JE. Reflections on the impact of antihypertensive medications on mood, sedation, and neuropsychologic functioning. Arch Intern Med 1992; 152:35-39.
5. Robinson SC. Hypotension: the ideal normal blood pressure. New Engl J Med 1940;223:407-416.
6. Meador CK. The art and science of nondisease. New Engl J Med 1965;272: 92-95.
7. Robbins JM, Korda H, Shapiro MF. Treatment for a nondisease: the case of low blood pressure. Soc Sci Med 1982;304:75-78.
8. Donner-Banzhoff N, Kreienbrock L, Baum E. Hypotension - Does it make sense in family practice? Fam Pract 1994;11:368-374.
9. Pilgrim JA, Stansfeld S, Marmor M. Low blood pressure, low mood? BMJ 1992;304:75-78.
10. Barrett-Connor E, Palinkas LA. Low blood pressure and depression in older men: a population based study. BMJ 1994;308:446-449.
11. Gilmore C, Green BH, Copeland JRM et al. Blood pressure as a risk factor for depression elderly people: a prospective study. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1995;91:126-129.
12. Rosengren A, Tibblin G, Wilhelmsen L. Low systolic blood pressure and self-perceived wellbeing in middle aged men. BMJ 1993;306:243-246.
13. Wessely S, Nickson J, Cox B. Symptoms of low blood pressure: a population study. BMJ 1990;301:362-365.
14. Donner-Banzhoff N, Chan Y, Szalai JP, Hilditch JR. Low blood pressure associated with low mood: a red herring? J Clin Epidemiol 1997;50:1175-1181.
15. Paykel ES, Fleminger R, Watson JP. Psychiatric side effects of antihypertensive drugs other than reserpine. J Clin Psychopharmacol 1982;2:14-39.
16. Markides KS, Stroup-Benham CA, Goodwin JS, Perkowski LC, Lichtenstein M, Ray L. The effect of medical conditions on the functional limitations of Mexican American elderly. Ann Epidemiol 1996;6:386-391.
17. Cornoni-Huntley J, Brock DB, Ostfeld A et al., eds. Established Populations for Epidemiologic Studies of the Elderly, Resource Data Book. NIH Publication No. 86-2443. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, 1986.
18. Radloff LS. The CES-D scale: a self-report depression scale for research in the general population. Appl Psychol Meas 1977;1:385-401.
19. Krause N, Markides KS. Employment and psychological well-being in Mexican American women. J Health Soc Behav 1985;26:15-26.
20. Roberts RE. Reliability of the CES-D scale in different ethnic contexts. Psychiatry Res 1980;2:125-134.
21. Rosenberg M. Society and the Adolescent Self-image. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1965.
22. Shah BV, Barnwell BG, Bieler GS. SUDAAN User's Manual Release 6.40. Research Triangle Park, NC: Research Triangle Institute, 1995.
23. The Working Group on Hypertension in the Elderly. Statement on hypertension in the elderly. JAMA 1986;256:70-74.
24. Mulrow CD, Cornell JA, Herrera CR et al. Hypertension in the elderly -implications and generalizability of randomized trials. JAMA 1994;121:355-362.
25. Lindholm L, Lanke J, Bengtsson B, Ejlertsson G, Thulin T, Schersten B. Both high and low blood pressures risk indicators of death in middle aged males. Acta Med Scand 1985;218:473-80.
26. Vatten LJ, Holmen J, Kruger O, Forsen L, Tverdal A. Low blood pressure and mortality in the elderly: a six year follow up of 18,022 Norwegian men and women age 65 and older. Epidemiology 1995;6:70-73.