Medical burden, cerebrovascular disease, and cognitive impairment in geriatric depression: Modeling the relationships with the CART analysis

CNS Spectrums

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 716-722

  Lavretsky, Helen ^a,b   Kitchen, Christina ^a   Mintz, Jim ^a   Kim, Moon Doo ^a   Estanol, Laverne ^a   Kumar, Anand ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DISORDER; HEALTH; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONLINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038799845     PISSN: 10928529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1092852900008701     Document Type: Article

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