Bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and cardiovascular disease in the middle-aged and elderly Chinese: a 5-year longitudinal study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Depressive symptoms and cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are important issues affecting the health of the middle-aged and elderly population in China. This study aimed to investigate the bidirectional association between depressive symptoms and CVD in middle-aged and elderly people in China.

Design

A 5-year longitudinal study.

Setting and participants

We included 6702 middle-aged and elderly participants from China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), which is a nationwide longitudinal household survey that started in 2011 (T1) and followed up every 2 years in 2013 (T2) and 2015 (T3).

Outcome measures

Depressive symptoms were measured by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. Binary logistic regression was used to identif

SUBMITTER: Ziwei Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10335433 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature