Depression and incident dementia. An 8-year population-based prospective study.

AIMS: The aim of the study was to investigate the impact of depression (categorical diagnosis; major depression, MD) and depressive symptoms (dimensional diagnosis and symptom patterns) on incident dementia in the German general population. METHODS: Within the Leipzig Longitudinal Study of the Aged...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Melanie Luppa, Tobias Luck, Franziska Ritschel, Matthias C Angermeyer, Arno Villringer, Steffi G Riedel-Heller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3602089?pdf=render