Do depressive symptoms increase the risk of incident stroke/TIA in individuals <65 years?
Identification of depressive symptoms at younger ages (<65 years) may be important for the primary prevention of stroke.
In this community-based study, depressive symptoms were an independent risk factor for incident stroke/TIA in individuals <65 years. These data suggest that identification of depressive symptoms at younger ages may have an impact on the primary prevention of stroke.
Salaycik et al. (Fri,) studied this question.