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Depression (differential diagnoses)

About: Depression (differential diagnoses) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 56557 publications have been published within this topic receiving 2048357 citations.


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TL;DR: There was a significantly greater improvement in depression in patients treated with nortriptyline than in a similar group of placebo-treated patients, providing an important addition to the treatments available for stroke patients.

474 citations

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15 May 1984-Cancer
TL;DR: The recognition or detection of depressive symptoms and syndromes in patients with cancer is of value to the patient because his mental distress may respond to treatment, and to the clinician because some of the clinical complications or difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of the patient may be reduced.
Abstract: The recognition or detection of depressive symptoms and syndromes in patients with cancer is of value to the patient because his mental distress may respond to treatment, and to the clinician because some of the clinical complications or difficulties in diagnosis and treatment of the patient may be reduced. Many factors militate against the diagnosis of depressive syndromes in patients with cancer. These include problems with the application of standard sets of criteria for depression, the assumption on the part of medical staff, family, and patients that depression is a "natural" response and therefore not treatable, and the pressure on all involved to "think positive." Some ways of modifying the usual screening and diagnostic procedures for depressive disorders are suggested.

474 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used linear and proportional odds logistic regression to assess the independent associations between age and duration of delirium with mental health and functional disabilities in patients undergoing treatment in medical or surgical ICUs.

472 citations

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TL;DR: The review considers the literature on Major Depression beginning with a brief historical overview, its classification, and a synthesis of the current knowledge regarding prevalence and course and concludes that recovery may not be permanent and future episodes carry the threat of chronicity.

472 citations

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TL;DR: Even after adjustment for sociodemographics, health status, and health behaviors, minor depression in older men and major depression in both old men and women increase the risk of dying.
Abstract: How depression and mortality are associated in older community-dwelling populations has yet to be discovered. This study established the role of both major and minor depression in mortality and assessed the function of confounding and explanatory variables in the relationship. A cohort of 3056 Dutch men and women aged 55 to 85 years were followed for 4 years. DSM-III criteria were used to define major depression according to the Diagnostic Interview Schedule. Minor depression was defined as clinically relevant (a Center for Epidemiologie Studies Depression score of ≥ 16) without fulfilling diagnostic criteria for major depression. After accounting for sociodemographic and health status confounders, men with major depression had a risk of death that was 1.80 times higher (95% CI, 1.35 to 2.39) than that in nondepressed men during follow-up. The risk of mortality was not significantly increased in women with minor depression. Gender did not affect the higher association of major depression with mortality risk (95% CI, 1.09 to 3.10) when sociodemographics and health status had been adjusted for. The extra risk of mortality associated with depression was accounted for only in small part by health behviors such as smoking and physical inactivity. Minor depression in older men and major depression in both older men and women increase the risk of dying even after sociodemographics, health status, and health behaviors have been taken into account.

472 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
202251
20213,717
20203,369
20193,005
20182,810
20172,737