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- Title
Prevalence of medical comorbidity in early onset versus late-onset depression in Vindhya region.
- Authors
Singh, Rajesh; Ahuja, Sunil; Singh, Amrendra; Shakya, Makhan; Pathak, Umesh; Rure, Daisy
- Abstract
Background: Late-onset depression differs significantly from early-onset depression according to clinical features, physical comorbidities, cognitive impairment, and cerebrovascular abnormalities, which suggest that these might have differing etiopathological pathways toward the depressive phenotype. Aim: The aim of the study was to identify comorbid physical disorders with late-onset depression. Methods: The present cross-sectional study was conducted in inpatients of the Department of Psychiatry during a period of 18 months. A study consisted of 60 patients of first depressive episode diagnosed using International Classification of Diseases-10 criteria, segregated 2 different groups of Early onset depression (between 40 and 65 years) and late-onset depression (LOD) (>65 years) with 30 patients each. Results: In LOD group, predominant comorbidities were hypertension 56.6%, cerebrovascular disease 36.6%, diabetes 33.3%, cardiovascular disease 23.3%, and anaemia 23.3%, followed by respiratory illnesses, arthritis, benign prostatic hyperplasia and cirrhosis. While, in early-onset depression group, common comorbidities were hypertension (13.3%), anemia (10%), arthritis (10%), and diabetes (6.6%). Conclusions: Hypertension cerebrovascular disease, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease were the predominant comorbidities in late-onset as well as early onset depression.
- Subjects
VINDHYA Range (India); COMORBIDITY; MENTAL depression; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; DEPRESSED persons; COGNITION disorders; BENIGN prostatic hyperplasia
- Publication
Industrial Psychiatry Journal, 2021, Vol 30, p103
- ISSN
0972-6748
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4103/0972-6748.328797