Depression and multimorbidity: Considering temporal characteristics of the associations between depression and multiple chronic diseases.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Depression frequently co-occurs with multiple chronic diseases in complex, costly, and dangerous patterns of multimorbidity. The field of health psychology may benefit from evaluating the temporal characteristics of depression's associations with common diseases, and from determining whether depression is a central connector in multimorbid disease clusters. The present review addresses these issues by focusing on 4 of the most prevalent diseases: hypertension, ischemic heart disease, arthritis, and diabetes.

Method

Study 1 assessed how prior chronic disease diagnoses were associated with current depression in a large, cross-sectional, population-based study. It assessed depression's centrality using network analysis accounting for disease prevalence. Study 2 prese

SUBMITTER: Birk JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6706317 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature