The epidemiology of depressive disorders.

Angst J

doi:10.1016/0924-977x(95)00025-k

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The epidemiology of depressive disorders.

Angst J Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland.

1995-01-01

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European neuropsychopharmacology : the journal of the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology. - 1995

English The Zürich cohort study of a community sample identified, up to age 35, a lifetime prevalence rate for DSM mania/hypomania of 5.5%, half of these cases also met the criteria for major depressive episodes. The lifetime prevalence rates obtained for major depressive disorder were 17.85% and the rate for all depressive subgroups including dysthymia, minor depression, recurrent brief depression and major depression was 35.4%. Data on the validity of the diagnostic subgroups suggest that these high prevalence rates are based on clinically relevant case definitions.

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