Are elevated depressive symptoms associated with incident cardiovascular diseases in middle-aged and older Chinese adults?
Elevated depressive symptoms, specifically restless sleep and loneliness, are significant risk factors for incident cardiovascular disease in middle-aged and older Chinese adults.
Elevated depressive symptoms overall and 2 individual symptoms (restless sleep and loneliness) were significantly associated with incident CVD among middle-aged and older Chinese adults.
Li et al. (2019) studied this question.