Objective. We examined the risk for depressive symptoms associated with age, education, ethnicity, gender, marital status, apolipoprotein E genotype (APOE) and memory complaints among non-demented elderly (560 years). Design. Cross-sectional study of geriatric patients recruited from a free memory
Clinically significant depressive symptoms and associated factors in a community sample of elderly subjects
✍ Scribed by Ricardo Barcelos Ferreira; David C. Steffens; Cássio Machado de Campos Bottino
- Book ID
- 118465026
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 62 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-5260
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