ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION

The prevalence of use of medicines with a known potential to cause depression among 40 elderly depressives and 20 matched controls was studied. Results showed that the prevalence was not significantly different between the two groups. Within the patient group, the prevalence was independent of the v...

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Autores principales: Sagar, R.S., Mohan, D., Kumar, Vinod, Khandelwal, S.K.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 1990
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2989572/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927429
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author Sagar, R.S.
Mohan, D.
Kumar, Vinod
Khandelwal, S.K.
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description The prevalence of use of medicines with a known potential to cause depression among 40 elderly depressives and 20 matched controls was studied. Results showed that the prevalence was not significantly different between the two groups. Within the patient group, the prevalence was independent of the variables of sex, nature and severity of depression, and history of previous episodes of affective illness. While the results indicate that depressive illnesses secondary to the use of medicines are not common, the possibility of a medicine rarely inducing depression cannot be ruled out.
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spelling pubmed-29895722011-09-16 ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION Sagar, R.S. Mohan, D. Kumar, Vinod Khandelwal, S.K. Indian J Psychiatry Original Article The prevalence of use of medicines with a known potential to cause depression among 40 elderly depressives and 20 matched controls was studied. Results showed that the prevalence was not significantly different between the two groups. Within the patient group, the prevalence was independent of the variables of sex, nature and severity of depression, and history of previous episodes of affective illness. While the results indicate that depressive illnesses secondary to the use of medicines are not common, the possibility of a medicine rarely inducing depression cannot be ruled out. Medknow Publications 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2989572/ /pubmed/21927429 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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ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
title ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
title_full ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
title_fullStr ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
title_full_unstemmed ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
title_short ELDERLY DEPRESSIVES : USE OF MEDICINES WITH A POTENITAL TO CAUSE DEPRESSION
title_sort elderly depressives : use of medicines with a potenital to cause depression
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21927429
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