Changes in severity of depressive symptoms and mortality: the Italian Longitudinal Study on Aging

• Published in: Psychological medicine Vol. 42; no. 12; pp. 2619 - 2629
• Main Authors: Scafato, E., Galluzzo, L., Ghirini, S., Gandin, C., Rossi, A., Solfrizzi, V., Panza, F., Di Carlo, A., Maggi, S., Farchi, G.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.12.2012
• Subjects: Adult and adolescent clinical studies; Age; Age Factors; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Aging; Biological and medical sciences; Cause of Death; Depression; Depressive Disorder, Major - diagnosis; Depressive Disorder, Major - mortality; Depressive Disorder, Major - psychology; Female; Follow-Up Studies; Gender; Humans; Italy; Longitudinal Studies; Male; Medical sciences; Mental depression; Mood disorders; Mortality; Odds Ratio; Original Articles; Proportional Hazards Models; Prospective Studies; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychometrics; Psychopathology. Psychiatry; Remission; Risk factors; Severity; Sex Factors; Socioeconomic Factors; Surveys and Questionnaires; Survival Analysis; Symptoms; Italy; mortality; epidemiology; Depression; elderly; Human; Mood disorder; Symptomatology; Italian; Senescence; Follow up study; Mortality; Severity score; Epidemiology; Elderly; Public health

Depression is recognized as being associated with increased mortality. However, there has been little previous research on the impact of longitudinal changes in late-life depressive symptoms on mortality, and of their remission in particular. As part of a prospective, population-based study on a ran...