International journal of geriatric psychiatry
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Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · May 2010
Comparative Study'Do you think you suffer from depression?' Reevaluating the use of a single item question for the screening of depression in older primary care patients.
The majority of older adults seek depression treatment in primary care. Despite impressive efforts to integrate depression treatment into primary care, depression often remains undetected. The overall goal of the present study was to compare a single item screening for depression to existing depression screening tools. ⋯ An easy way to detect depression in older primary care patients would be asking the single question, 'do you think you suffer from depression?'
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Int J Geriatr Psychiatry · May 2010
The effect of alcohol and tobacco consumption, and apolipoprotein E genotype, on the age of onset in Alzheimer's disease.
This study examined the association between a history of heavy alcohol use and smoking, presence of the apolipoprotein-E epsilon 4 allele (APOE epsilon4), and age of disease onset in a community dwelling sample of 685 Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients spanning three ethnic groups. ⋯ The results suggest that APOE epsilon4 and heavy drinking and heavy smoking lower the age of onset for AD in an additive fashion.