Depressive symptoms predict the incidence of common chronic diseases in women and men in a representative community sample.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression, the most frequent and harmful mental disorder, has been associated with specific somatic diseases as the leading cause of death. The purposes of this prospective study were to predict incident chronic diseases based on baseline depressive symptoms and to test sex-dependent effects.

Methods

In a representative German community sample of over 12 000 participants, baseline depressive symptoms (assessed using the Patient Health Questionnaire-9) were tested as a predictor of new onset of cardiovascular disease (CVD), chronic obstructive lung disease, diabetes, cancer, and migraine at 5-year follow-up. To study disease incidence, we created subsamples for each chronic disease by excluding participants who already had the respective disease at baseline. Poten

SUBMITTER: Otten D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10317822 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature