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Medical Burden, Cerebrovascular Disease, and Cognitive Impairment in Geriatric Depression: Modeling the Relationships With the CART Analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 November 2014

Helen Lavretsky ,
Christina Kitchen ,
Jim Mintz ,
Moon-Doo Kim ,
Laverne Estanol  and
Anand Kumar
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Abstract

Herein, the background information reflecting roles of medical burden, cerebrovascular disease and risk factors, and cognitive impairment in geriatric depression are reviewed. The authors then propose a nonparametric statistical approach to the data analysis of multiple putative causal variables for late-life depression, the Classification and Regression Tree Analysis. This analysis presents a useful approach to modeling nonlinear relationships and interactions among variables measuring physical and mental health, as well as magnetic resonance imaging and cognitive measures in depressed elderly. This method uncovers the existing interactions among multiple predictor variables, and provide thresholds for each variable, at which its predictive power becomes statistically significant. It presents a “hierarchy” of the predictors in a form of a decision tree by finding the best combination of predictors of an outcome.

The authors present two models based on demographic variables, measures of vascular and nonvascular medical burden, neuroimaging indices, the Mini-Mental State Examination score, and neuropsychological test scores of 81 elderly depressed subjects.

Cognitive tests of verbal fluency and executive function are identified as the best predictors of depression, followed by the frontal lobe volume and Mini-Mental State Examination. The authors observed that an interaction between frontal lobe volume, total lesion volume, and medical burden was predictive of depression.

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CNS Spectrums , Volume 7 , Issue 10: Geriatric Psychiatry: Emerging Concepts , October 2002 , pp. 716 - 722
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2002

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