<b>HEALTH ISSUE</b>: Depression causes significant distress or impairment in physical, social, occupational and other key areas of functioning. Women are approximately twice as likely as men to experience depression. Psychosocial factors likely mediate the risks for depression incurred by biological influences.
Stewart, Donna E. (Author)+2 more
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Depression is a common and important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is commonly treated with antidepressants and/or psychological therapy, but some people prefer alternative approaches such as exercise. There are a number of theoretical reasons why exercise may improve depression. This is an update of a review first published in 2009.
Cooney, G. M.+7 more
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Is it depression or is it bipolar depression?
ABSTRACTThis review is intended to guide primary care providers in differentiating patients with bipolar depression from those with unipolar depression and inform patient management. Up to 64% of clinical encounters for depression occur in primary care, with misdiagnosis of bipolar depression common in both primary care and psychiatry. Although bipolar
Donna Rolin+2 more
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Offspring of parents with recurrent depression: which features of parent depression index risk for offspring psychopathology? [PDF]
Background: Parental depression is associated with an increased risk of psychiatric disorder in offspring, although outcomes vary. At present relatively little is known about how differences in episode timing, severity, and course of recurrentdepression ...
Collishaw, S.+9 more
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Big boys don't cry: Depression and men [PDF]
Men are a numerical minority group receiving a diagnosis of, and treatment for, depression. However, community surveys of men and of their mental health issues (e.g. suicide and alcoholism) have led some to suggest that many more men have depression than
Branney, P, White, A
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The Blurred Line between Physical Ageing and Mental Health in Older Adults: Implications for the Measurement of Depression [PDF]
Objectives: Depression in older adults is assessed using measures validated in the general adult population. However, such measures may be inappropriate in the elderly due to the similarities between ageing and the symptoms of depression.
Hazell, C.+5 more
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A Multilevel Meta‑Analysis [PDF]
Insecure attachment to primary caregivers is associated with the development of depression symptoms in children and youth. This association has been shown by individual studies testing the relation between attachment and depression and by meta-analyses ...
Colonnesi, Cristina+6 more
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Relationship between blood pressure values, depressive symptoms and cardiovascular outcomes in patients with cardiometabolic disease [PDF]
We studied joint effect of blood pressure-BP and depression on risk of major adverse cardiovascular outcome in patients with existing cardiometabolic disease. A cohort of 35537 patients with coronary heart disease, diabetes or stroke underwent depression
Barry, Sarah J.E.+5 more
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Depression and mortality: Artifact of measurement and analysis? [PDF]
Background Previous research demonstrates various associations between depression, cardiovascular disease (CVD) incidence and mortality, possibly as a result of the different methodologies used to measure depression and analyse relationships.
Amouyel, P.+13 more
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Depression-related difficulties disengaging from negative faces are associated with sustained attention to negative feedback during social evaluation and predict stress recovery [PDF]
The present study aimed to clarify: 1) the presence of depression-related attention bias related to a social stressor, 2) its association with depression-related attention biases as measured under standard conditions, and 3) their association with ...
De Raedt, Rudi+2 more
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