We have tried to find out whether depressive illness is related to low plasma cholesterol concentrations in men of 50 years and older. In 1985-87, Beck depression inventories were obtained from 1020 white men, aged 50-89 years, in the Rancho Bernardo, California, cohort. Disease history and ...
Depression also raises the risk of suicide, especially in older white men. The suicide rate in people ages 80 to 84 is more than twice that of the general population. The National Institute ofMental Healthconsiders depression in people 65 and older to be a major public health problem. ...
The impact of downward social comparison processes on depressive symptoms in older men and womenOLD ageMENTAL healthDEPRESSED personsDEPRESSION, MentalMENTALLY illMost older people maintain good mental health despite numerous age-related changes to their physical health and functional abilities. Although it...
Depression is not a normal part of aging, but it is common. A variety of things can lead to depression in older men. Health conditions Many men develop serious health problems as they get older. Some of these conditions, and medications that treat them, can increase your risk for depression...
In particular, we were unable to find any previous studies of depression in elderly widowers that employed categorical psychiatric diagnoses as well as a comparison group of older married men. This is somewhat surprising given the high rate of completed suicide among this group (Blazer et al., ...
OBJECTIVES: To determine if marital status is associated with depressive symptoms in men and women, and to determine if partner satisfaction is associated with depressive symptoms. METHODS: Community-dwelling adults (n = 1751) aged 65 years and older were sampled from a representative population-base...
Studies have also shown that the severity of depression may interact with triglyceride level to further increase CVD risk4. Many mechanisms have been proposed to underly the association between depressive symptoms and CVD incidence, such as dysregulation in the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis, ...
Depression is a costly and debilitating illness; approximately 16% of the US population (>32 million people) will meet the criteria for major depressive disorder in a given year.1 Typically, women are diagnosed with depression twice as often as men. This sex ratio appears in almost every setti...
However, when the concentration of free testosterone is lower than 6 ng/dL, the risk of depression increases 3-fold compared with men with concentrations greater than 10 ng/dL.The observed increased risk of depression in older men associated with low free testosterone levels is independent of ...
Despite concerns about recent trends in the health and functioning of older Americans, little is known about dynamics of depression among recent cohorts of U.S. older adults and how these dynamics differ across sociodemographic groups. This study examined sociodemographic differences in mid- and late...