Mortality rates in major and subthreshold depression: 10-year follow-up of a Singaporean population cohort of older adults

Postgraduate Medicine

Volumn 128, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 642-647

  Ho, Cyrus SH ^a   Jin, Aizhen ^b   Nyunt, Ma Shwe Zin ^a   Feng, Liang ^a   Ng, Tze Pin ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b National Registry of Diseases Office   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Elderly; major depression; mortality; subthreshold depression

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY OF DAILY LIVING ASSESSMENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MORTALITY RATE; SUBTHRESHOLD DEPRESSION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SINGAPORE; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STROKE;

EID: 84982126674     PISSN: 00325481     EISSN: 19419260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00325481.2016.1221319     Document Type: Article

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