Increased risk for dementia in elderly psychiatric inpatients with late- onset major depression

Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Volumn 188, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 242-243

  Zalsman, Gil ^a   Aizenberg, Dov ^b   Sigler, Mayanit ^b   Nahshony, Eitan ^b   Karp, Leon ^b   Weizman, Abraham ^b  

^a GEHA MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PATIENT; RISK ASSESSMENT;

AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DEMENTIA; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, PSYCHIATRIC; HUMANS; ISRAEL; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0034119302     PISSN: 00223018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005053-200004000-00010     Document Type: Article

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