Late-onset depression in elderly subjects from the Vienna Transdanube Aging (VITA) study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 500-508

  Mossaheb, Nilufar ^a   Weissgram, Silvia ^b   Zehetmayer, Sonja ^a   Jungwirth, Susanne ^b   Rainer, Michael ^c   Tragl, Karl Heinz ^b   Fischer, Peter ^b,c  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^c DANUBE HOSPITAL   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERONTOPSYCHIATRY; HUMAN; LIFE EVENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MILD COGNITIVE IMPAIRMENT; ONSET AGE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGE FACTORS; AGE OF ONSET; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; AUSTRIA; COGNITION DISORDERS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 66349114062     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.08m04265     Document Type: Article

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