Statements in which the resource exists as a subject.
PredicateObject
rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-30
pubmed:abstractText
Seventy-seven patients with documented coronary heart disease (CHD) were evaluated for demographic/risk factor characteristics, Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) according to the Patient's Health Questionnaire (PHQ - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual IV criteria), and emotional distress by the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL-90-R). Early age at initial diagnosis for coronary heart disease (AAID) was used as a proxy for disease malignancy because early AAID is a known predictor of early mortality. MDD was unrelated to early AAID despite being strongly associated with all the scales of the SCL-90-R. Several of the SCL-90-R scales were significantly associated with early AAID in the sample as a whole (Depression, Interpersonal Sensitivity, Anxiety, Paranoia, and Psychoticism) and after removal of the patients meeting criteria for MDD (residual N = 54). Our results suggest a new criterion for determining whether depression, or any mental disorder, is "major": onset or aggravation of serious medical illness.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0033-3182
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
47
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
50-5
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
"Major" Depressive Disorder, coronary heart disease, and the DSM-IV threshold problem.
pubmed:affiliation
Heart and Vascular Institute, Henry Ford Hospital & Wayne State University, Detroit MI 48202, USA. MarkWKetterer@cs.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article