Hausner, Helmut and Wittmann, M. and Haen, E. and Spiessl, H. (2008) The untreated patients: Depression in elderly men. NERVENHEILKUNDE, 27 (7). pp. 617-619. ISSN 0722-1541,
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In elaborate studies were found that the sex ratio F/M of depressive disorder tends to decline with increasing age. The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that sex differences in hospitalised patients presenting with a depressive episode diminish after 6. decade of life. Using the AGATE census for inpatients 2000 to 2004 in Bavaria, we examine the relationship between sex and age on depressive episode. Spearman-correlations and chi(2)-test were conducted with SPSS. Overall 41699 patients were evaluated. A total of 7 487 patients were rated as a depressive episode according to ICD-10. The sex-ratio F/M was 2.1:1. In the 5. and 6. decade of life the sex-ratio was 1.7:1. It climbed to a sex-ratio of 2.2:1 in the 7. decade of life and to 2.6:1 in the 8. decade of life. Differently from epidemiological studies the predicted reduction of sex differences in the post-menopausal years was not found. Elderly men suffering a depression are not adequately supplied.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | MAJOR DEPRESSION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC FINDINGS; GENDER-DIFFERENCES; NATIONAL-SURVEY; PREVALENCE; CARE; SEX; SUICIDE; UPDATE; DISORDER; depressive disorder; gender; age |
| Subjects: | 600 Technology > 610 Medical sciences Medicine |
| Divisions: | Medicine > Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie |
| Depositing User: | Dr. Gernot Deinzer |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Nov 2020 07:23 |
| Last Modified: | 23 Nov 2020 07:23 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/31733 |
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