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What are the clinical characteristics and medical co-morbidity of primary care patients with significant depressive symptomatology who do not meet MDD criteria?
What are the clinical characteristics and medical co-morbidity of primary care patients with significant depressive symptomatology who do not meet MDD criteria?
Subclinical depression in primary care patients is associated with substantial medical morbidity, including more severe medical illness and higher likelihood of operative procedures.
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Depressive symptoms without MDD may flag higher medical burden in primary care; leaves open causal links and intervention effects.
Coulehan et al. (1990) studied this question.
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