@article{ref1,
title="Depression, diagnostic sub-type and death: a 25 year follow-up study",
journal="Journal of affective disorders",
year="1997",
author="Brodaty, Henry and MacCuspie-Moore, C. M. and Tickle, L. and Luscombe, G.",
volume="46",
number="3",
pages="233-242",
abstract="We assessed mortality rates over 25 years in 212 patients admitted for depression or depressive symptoms. More patients had died than expected (80 including 13 suicides; SMR = 1.40, P < 0.01). Females, but not males, experienced significantly higher mortality than the general population. When suicides were excluded, neither the group as a whole, nor females solely, demonstrated excess mortality. Rigorously diagnosed depressive sub-type did not predict mortality. Mortality, particularly from suicide, was disproportionately greater in the first 2 years after index admission, suggesting that the follow-up of patients hospitalised with depression must be especially assiduous during the years immediately after admission.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-0327",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}