Psychotic depression and mortality

American Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 160, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 574-576

  Vythilingam, Meena ^a,b   Chen, Joyce ^a   Bremner, J Douglas ^a   Mazure, Carolyn M ^a   Maciejewski, Paul K ^a   Nelson, J Craig ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DEPRESSIVE PSYCHOSIS; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; DYING; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL PATIENT; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SURVIVAL; AFFECTIVE PSYCHOSIS; BLOOD; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR;

DEXAMETHASONE; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; HYDROCORTISONE;

AFFECTIVE DISORDERS, PSYCHOTIC; CAUSE OF DEATH; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; HYDROCORTISONE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0037362599     PISSN: 0002953X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1176/appi.ajp.160.3.574     Document Type: Article

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