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

CONCLUSIONS: Both major and subthreshold depression were associated with increased mortality, largely due to hazardous behaviours and physical comorbidity. Only major depression per se was independently associated with excess cardiovascular disease and stroke mortality. PMID: 27500920 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Postgraduate Medicine - Category: Internal Medicine Tags: Postgrad Med Source Type: research