Liping Shao, Xiaohong Zhu, Dan-Lin Li, Luying Wu, Xujia Lu, Yulong Fan, Zhengpeng Qiao, Liying Hou, Chen-Wei Pan, Chaofu Ke
BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms are highly prevalent and increase risks of various morbidities. However, the extent to which depressive symptoms could account for incidence of these chronic conditions, in particular multimorbidity patterns, remains to be examined and quantified. METHODS: For this cohort analysis, we included 9024-14,093 participants aged 45 years and older from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate hazard ratios (HRs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) for the longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and 13 common chronic diseases and 4 multimorbidity patterns...
March 23, 2024: Journal of Psychiatric Research