PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION

Forty elderly psychiatric out-patients with an ICD-9 diagnosis of depression and twenty matched controls were studied for the presence of physical illnesses, using a pre-defined battery of investigative techniques. While the prevalence of physical illness diagnosis was not significantly different be...

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Autores principales: Sagar, Ratakonda S., Mohan, D., Kumar, Vinod, Khandelwal, S.K., Nair, P.G Gopinathan
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1992
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980983/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21776097
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author Sagar, Ratakonda S.
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description Forty elderly psychiatric out-patients with an ICD-9 diagnosis of depression and twenty matched controls were studied for the presence of physical illnesses, using a pre-defined battery of investigative techniques. While the prevalence of physical illness diagnosis was not significantly different between the two groups, the number of subjects with undiagnosed illnesses and those with multiple illnesses was significantly higher among the depressives. Among specific illnesses, hypertension, osteoarthritis and cataract were significantly more common among depressives. Significance of the findings is discussed.
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spelling pubmed-29809832011-07-20 PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION Sagar, Ratakonda S. Mohan, D. Kumar, Vinod Khandelwal, S.K. Nair, P.G Gopinathan Indian J Psychiatry Original Article Forty elderly psychiatric out-patients with an ICD-9 diagnosis of depression and twenty matched controls were studied for the presence of physical illnesses, using a pre-defined battery of investigative techniques. While the prevalence of physical illness diagnosis was not significantly different between the two groups, the number of subjects with undiagnosed illnesses and those with multiple illnesses was significantly higher among the depressives. Among specific illnesses, hypertension, osteoarthritis and cataract were significantly more common among depressives. Significance of the findings is discussed. Medknow Publications 1992 /pmc/articles/PMC2980983/ /pubmed/21776097 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Psychiatry http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Sagar, Ratakonda S.
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PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
title PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
title_full PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
title_fullStr PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
title_full_unstemmed PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
title_short PHYSICAL ILLNESSES AMONG ELDERLY PSYCHIATRIC OUT-PATIENTS WITH DEPRESSION
title_sort physical illnesses among elderly psychiatric out-patients with depression
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2980983/
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