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Pathologies related to depression in elderly patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

J. Batistella ,
G. Hida ,
D. Malheiros ,
G. Taniguchi Rodrigues ,
F.J. Ropero Peláez ,
J. Magalhães  and
S. Taniguchi
J. Batistella
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Basic Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil
G. Hida
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Health Economics, São Paulo, Brazil
D. Malheiros
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Health Economics, São Paulo, Brazil
G. Taniguchi Rodrigues
Affiliation:
Centro Universitário do Estado do Pará, Faculty of Medicine, Belém, Brazil
F.J. Ropero Peláez
Affiliation:
UFABC, Mathematics Computation and Cognition, Santo adré, Brazil
J. Magalhães
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Basic Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil
S. Taniguchi
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein Hospital, Basic Sciences, São Paulo, Brazil

Abstract

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Introduction

The occurrence of chronic diseases, motor limitation, cognitive impairment and social isolation could be related to late life depression.

Objective

To describe the pathologies related to elderly patients with depression. To study possible relationship between depression and others pathologies in elderly patients.

Methods

This retrospective study included 124 geriatric patients enrolled in a private long-term care institution with mean age of 86.2 ± 6.5 years old, mean weight of 60.28 ± 2.00 kg and mean period of hospitalisation of 4.4 ± 2.3 years. For data analysis, double-entry tables and tests of proportion Qui-square were used.

Results

Cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine metabolic, skeletal muscle, sense organs, hematological, digestive tract; neuropsychological and genitourinary, diseases were analyzed.

We observed a significant correlation between depression and endocrine-metabolic (P value of 0.0003), sense organs (P value of 9.298 E-5) and skeletal muscle pathologies (P value of 6.843 E-6)

Conclusions

We observed in that population that depression could be prevalent in elderly patients with endocrine-metabolic, sense organs and skeletal muscle pathologies.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: Cultural psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S543
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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