The aim of the study was to identify the prevalence of depressive symptoms (GDS score) and predictors of mood changes over a 12-month period in 56 nursing home residents (13 males and 43 females; mean age 81.1 8.6). At baseline, 48.2% of the residents who scored above 11 on the MMSE had a GDS score
Genetic predictors of depressive symptoms in cardiac patients
✍ Scribed by Jeanne M. McCaffery; Qing Ling Duan; Nancy Frasure-Smith; Amina Barhdadi; Francois Lespérance; Pierre Théroux; Guy A. Rouleau; Marie-Pierre Dubé
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 163 KB
- Volume
- 150B
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1552-4841
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