Citation

Murphy E, Smith R, Lindesay J, Slattery J. Br. J. Psychiatry 1988; 152: 347-353.

Affiliation

Division of Psychiatry, UMDS (Guy's Campus), London.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, Royal College of Psychiatry)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3167369

Abstract

Physical illness at referral and subsequent mortality were studied in a group of elderly patients with depression, and compared with age/sex-matched controls. The depressed group was significantly less well at first interview, and had a significantly higher 4-year mortality. When the effect of physical illness was controlled, the depressed patients (particularly the men) still had a significantly higher 4-year mortality, suggesting that the greater mortality in the depressed group was not due to differences in physical health alone.

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