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Long-term depression is a stroke risk factor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Emel Kocer ,
Abdulkadir Kocer ,
Yıldız Degirmenci  and
Mehmet Eryılmaz
Emel Kocer*
Affiliation:
Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
Abdulkadir Kocer
Affiliation:
Neurology Department, Medical Faculty, Bezmialem Vakif University, Istanbul, Turkey
Yıldız Degirmenci
Affiliation:
Neurology Department, Düzce Medical Faculty, Düzce University, Duzce, Turkey
Mehmet Eryılmaz
Affiliation:
Neurology Department, Düzce Medical Faculty, Düzce University, Duzce, Turkey
*
Assistant Professor Emel Koçer, Psychiatry Department, Medical Faculty, Bezmialem Vakif University, Fatih, Istanbul, Turkey. Tel: +90 505 426 28 28; Fax: +90 212 453 17 17; E-mail: dremelkocer@yahoo.com
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Kocer E, Kocer A, Degirmenci Y, Eryılmaz M. Long-term depression is a stroke risk factor.

Background and Aim: Only a few studies have evaluated depression prevalence in pre-stroke period in comparison to controls. We investigated this association based on a hospitalised stroke population.

Methods: One hundred and forty-eight stroke patients were evaluated. The presence of depression was compared with those of 100 healthy controls without stroke, from the same region. Depression was accepted as present or not present after history and clinical evaluation according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV. Socio-demographic variables, other stroke risk factors and the time of diagnosis of depression (how many year or month they got depression) were recorded.

Results: Gender and mean age of patients and controls were similar in comparison. Depression was diagnosed in 27 patients and 24 controls (p > 0.05). The time period passed after diagnosis of depression was longer in stroke patients in comparison to controls (p < 0.001).

Conclusions: The risk of stroke should be considered in elderly with long-term depression. This indicates that treatment of depression is another factor which should be considered in prevention of brain stroke.

Keywords

depressionlong-term depressionrisk factorstrokestroke prevention
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Research Article
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Acta Neuropsychiatrica , Volume 23 , Issue 6 , December 2011 , pp. 292 - 296
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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