Citation

Brodaty H, MacCuspie-Moore CM, Tickle L, Luscombe G. J. Affect. Disord. 1997; 46(3): 233-242.

Affiliation

Academic Department of Psychogeriatrics, Prince Henry Hospital, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. h.brodaty@unsw.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

9547119

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.

Language: en