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   For older adults, serious depression symptoms increase risk for stroke and   
   heart disease   
   February 1, 2016   
      
   Depression and its symptoms increase as people age, and have been linked to   
   heart disease and stroke in both middle-aged and older adults. But whether   
   depression and its symptoms are risk factors for these two dangerous   
   conditions has been unclear.   
      
      
       
   In a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society,   
   researchers set out to learn more about whether depression or its symptoms   
   affect heart disease and stroke in older adults.   
      
   The researchers studied 7,313 older adults selected from the election rolls of   
   three large French cities between 1999 and 2001. None of the participants had   
   a history of heart disease, stroke, or dementia at the start of the study.   
   Researchers conducted    
   face-to-face interviews with the participants when the study began, and   
   checked them again three times--two years, four years, and seven years after   
   their initial interview. In addition, researchers tested the participants'   
   mental health status, blood    
   sugar, and cholesterol levels, and asked them questions about medical history   
   and medications. In addition, the researchers determined whether or not the   
   participants had symptoms of depression.   
      
   At the beginning of the study, nearly 30 percent of the women and 15 percent   
   of the men (23 percent of all participants in total) had high levels of   
   depressive symptoms. The researchers discovered that about 40 percent of   
   people with high levels of    
   depressive symptoms "recovered" and the same amount of people developed new   
   depression symptoms at each follow-up visit. During all study visits, fewer   
   than 10 percent of the participants were taking medications for depression.   
      
   The researchers discovered that adults 65-years-old and older who had high   
   levels of depressive symptoms on one, two, three, or four occasions during the   
   study had 15 percent, 32 percent, 52 percent, and 75 percent greater risk,   
   respectively, for    
   experiencing heart disease or stroke events over the 10 years of the study. As   
   a result, the researchers concluded that depression could be a risk factor for   
   heart disease or stroke. They suggested that physicians pay close attention to   
   symptoms of    
   depression in older adults under care.   
      
      
       
   More information: "High Level of Depressive Symptoms at Repeated Study Visits   
   and the Risk of Coronary Heart Disease and Stroke over 10 Years in Older   
   Adults: The Three-City Study." onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.11   
   1/jgs.13872/abstract   
      
   Provided by: American Geriatrics Society   
      
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