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Antidepressants
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Antidepressants
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Antidepressants book
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2005
Imprint CRC Press
Pages 10
eBook ISBN 9780429124198
ABSTRACT
Depression is a serious and common mood disorder. The lifetime prevalence of major depression is 17%, spread over the age group from 15 to 54 years; it is twice as common in women as in men.
Among elderly people living in the community, the prevalence of major depression is 3%, but it is 15 to 25% for those living in nursing homes, who have a 13% annual incidence of new episodes.