Depressive symptoms are doubled in older British South Asian and Black Caribbean people compared with Europeans: Associations with excess co-morbidity and socioeconomic disadvantage

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1861-1871

  Williams, E D ^a,b   Tillin, T ^a,b   Richards, M ^b   Tuson, C ^a   Chaturvedi, N ^a,b   Hughes, A D ^a,b   Stewart, R ^c  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Depression; ethnic group differences; explanatory factors; prevalence

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLACK PERSON; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; CAUCASIAN; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMAN; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CLASS; SRI LANKA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ADIPOSITY; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; INDIA; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PAKISTAN; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SRI LANKA; WEST INDIES;

EID: 84946476312     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291714002967     Document Type: Article

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