Depression is associated with hospitalizations primarily for physical conditions such as endocrine, musculoskeletal, and vascular diseases rather than psychiatric disorders.
In this study, the most common causes of hospitalization in people with depression were endocrine, musculoskeletal, and vascular diseases, not psychiatric disorders. These findings suggest that depression should be considered as a target for the prevention of physical and mental disease.
Frank et al. (Wed,) studied this question.