Why is depression more common among women than among men?

The Lancet Psychiatry

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 146-158

  Kuehner, Christine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ANXIETY DISORDER; CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE; COMORBIDITY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HEREDITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PERSONALITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SYMPTOM; TEMPERAMENT; VIOLENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEX FACTOR; SOCIOECONOMICS;

DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 85006421459     PISSN: 22150366     EISSN: 22150374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2215-0366(16)30263-2     Document Type: Review

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