Relationship between serum homocysteine levels and depressive symptoms: The Cooper Center longitudinal study

Journal of Clinical Psychiatry

Volumn 73, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 691-695

  Gu, Phillip ^a   DeFina, Laura F ^b   Leonard, David ^a   John, Sherin ^a   Weiner, Myron F ^a   Brown, E Sherwood ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Department of Clinical Sciences University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CREATININE; HOMOCYSTEINE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CONTROL; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REFERENCE VALUE; SEX RATIO; SMOKING;

EID: 84861816548     PISSN: 01606689     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4088/JCP.11m07223     Document Type: Article

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