Increased Incidence of Diagnosed Depressive Illness in Hypogonadal Older Men

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 162-167

  Shores, Molly M ^a,b,d   Sloan, Kevin L ^a,b   Matsumoto, Alvin M ^a,c   Moceri, Victoria M ^a,c   Felker, Bradford ^a,b   Kivlahan, Daniel R ^a,b  

^a Veterans Puget Sound Health Care System   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d S 182 GRECC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TESTOSTERONE;

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANOREXIA; BONE DENSITY; BONE MINERAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FATIGUE; HUMAN; HYPOGONADISM; IRRITABILITY; LIBIDO DISORDER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MUSCLE MASS; PROSTATE CANCER; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

AGED; AGING; COHORT STUDIES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HUMANS; HYPOGONADISM; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 0742270551     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.61.2.162     Document Type: Review

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