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Lifetime risk of depression: restricted to a minority or waiting for most? | Synapse

November 30, 2005Open Access

Lifetime risk of depression: restricted to a minority or waiting for most?

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Summary Depression remits and recurs, but among what proportion of the population? Retrospective surveys report the lifetime risk to be around 10%. A modelling study and two prospective studies concur that close to half the population can expect one or more episodes of depression in their lifetime.

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Andrews et al. (Wed,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1310a892637892a9a7c824 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.187.6.495

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