Why the study?
Do baseline vascular risk factors increase the risk of developing elevated depressive symptoms in Mexican American elders?
Population
964 Mexican American elders without significant depressive symptomotology or cognitive impairment at…
Comparison
Presence of baseline vascular risk factors and a… vs Absence or lower number of baseline vascular…
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
2 years
Authors
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May inform geriatric risk assessment in Mexican American elders; leaves open causality and need for interventional trials.
Do baseline vascular risk factors increase the risk of developing elevated depressive symptoms in Mexican American elders?
Cumulative vascular risk factors are independently associated with an increased risk of developing elevated depressive symptoms over 2 years in Mexican American elders.
Zimmerman et al. (2008) studied this question.
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