Improvements in depression and physical illness track closely together in elderly inpatients with heart failure or pulmonary disease, with baseline characteristics predicting outcome trajectories.
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May support integrated depression-physical care in elderly inpatients; leaves open whether antidepressants causally alter joint trajectories.
Koenig et al. (2006) studied this question.
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