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From depression to disability

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2017

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Jinhui Joo*
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, School of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center, 5300 Alpha Commons Drive, Room 427, Baltimore, MD, USA
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The deleterious impact of depression on quality of life as well as mortality through suicide and worsening medical comorbidity is well known. Impairment and disability associated with depression is significant and equal to that attributable to cardiovascular disease and greater than that due to other chronic physical disorders, such as hypertension, diabetes, and arthritis (Wells et al., 1989). Depression impacts not only the individual life of the patient but affects the health of society.

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International Psychogeriatrics , Volume 29 , Issue 6 , June 2017 , pp. 883
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Copyright © International Psychogeriatric Association 2017 

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