Depression Eclipses Other Chronic Disease for Poor Health Status
No individual chronic disease—not angina, not arthritis, not asthma, not diabetes—is more disabling than depression, according to a World Health Organization study. In the World Health Survey of 245,404 patients ages 18 and older, from 60 countries in all regions of the world. respondents with depression had the lowest health score among all five chronic disease conditions, 72.9 (P<0.0001).
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Depression, chronic diseases, and decrements in health: results from the World Health Surveys
The Lancet 2007; 370:851-858
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