Citation

Chen HH, Yeh HL, Tsai SJ. Psychiatry Clin. Neurosci. 2012; 66(4): 367-369.

Affiliation

Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital Division of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei Taipei Veterans Home, New Taipei City, Taiwan.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1440-1819.2012.02347.x

PMID

22624743

Abstract

Lower hemoglobin (Hb) levels are a common feature in the elderly. The present study recruited 180 healthy elderly men. Participants were assessed using the Geriatric Depression Scale, the Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument Chinese version, and the Wechsler Digit Span Task test. The mean age of the participants was 85.8 years (SD = 10.5). Pearson's correlation tests demonstrated that Hb concentrations negatively correlated with Geriatric Depression Scale (r = -0.245, P = 0.001), but did not correlate with Cognitive Abilities Screening Instrument, Forward or Backward Digit Span tests. Lower Hb levels, therefore, were associated with depression in the elderly men.

Language: en