Burden and correlates of geriatric depression in the Uyghur elderly population, observation from Xinjiang, China.

With the gradual aging of the population, geriatric depression has become a major public health issue in China owing to its overall upward trend and associated negative socio-economic impact. Dearth of information regarding the burden and correlates of geriatric depression among Uyghur minority popu...

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Main Authors: Lei Feng, Ping Li, Chen Lu, Weiming Tang, Tanmay Mahapatra, Yu Wang, Xihua Wang, Ying Ma, Yanli Ben, Xiaolin Cao, Sanchita Mahapatra, Min Ling, Anshuan Gou, Yanmei Wang, Jiangqin Xiao, Ming Hou, Xiuli Wang, Bo Lin, Ruoling Chen, Faxing Wang, Zhi Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4250089?pdf=render