Racial Variation in Depression Risk Factors and Symptom Trajectories among Older Women.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess racial variation in depression risk factors and symptom trajectories among older women.

Methods

Using Nurses' Health Study data, participants (29,483 non-Hispanic white and 288 black women) aged 60 years or older, free of depression in 2000, were followed until 2012. Data on race and risk factors, selected a priori, were obtained from biennial questionnaires. Incident depression was defined as depression diagnosis, antidepressant use, or presence of severe depressive symptoms. Group-based trajectories of depressive symptoms were determined using latent variable modeling approaches.

Results

Black participants had lower risk (hazard ratio: 0.76; 95% confidence interval: 0.57-0.99) of incident late-life depression compared with whites. Although blacks

SUBMITTER: Chang SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5069193 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature