Age patterns in the prevalence of DSM-IV depressive/anxiety disorders with and without physical co-morbidity

Abstract

Background-Physical morbidity is a potent risk factor for depression onset and clearly increases with age, yet prior research has often found depressive disorders to decrease with age. This study tests the possibility that the relationship between age and mental disorders differs as a function of physical co-morbidity.

Depression in older cat and dog owners: the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study (HUNT)-3

“…This could be due to the aging process (Xue, 2011) or increased suffering from comorbid symptoms and diseases (Scott et al, 2008). Our result on self-rated general health could depend on comorbid symptoms and diseases.…”

Depressive symptoms in the Belgian population: disentangling age and cohort effects

“…), reported a decline in depression with ageing [14]. There is also more recent empirical evidence confirming this trend [15][16][17], but only in developed countries [4]. Inversely, depression was observed to increase over the life-course.…”

Mood and anxiety disorders across the adult lifespan: a European perspective

“…Although the body of cross-national literature examining the association between age and mental illness is considerable, the majority comprises systematic reviews (Riedel-Heller et al 2006), meta-analyses (Wittchen et al 2011), pooled analyses (Scott et al 2008) or results obtained from analysing each country independently . Examples of hierarchical modelling that allow for comparisons between countries to be made along the lifespan exist, but these tend to be limited to measures derived from symptom scales (Van de Velde et al 2010).…”