Senior Medical Officer, Department of Neurology, JIPMER, Pondicherry - 605 006.
Indian J Psychiatry. 1992 Jan;34(1):41-5.
Forty elderly psychiatric out-patients with an ICD-9 diagnosis of depression and twenty matched controls were studied for the presence of physical illnesses, using a pre-defined battery of investigative techniques. While the prevalence of physical illness diagnosis was not significantly different between the two groups, the number of subjects with undiagnosed illnesses and those with multiple illnesses was significantly higher among the depressives. Among specific illnesses, hypertension, osteoarthritis and cataract were significantly more common among depressives. Significance of the findings is discussed.
四十名患有 ICD-9 诊断的抑郁症的老年精神科门诊患者和二十名匹配的对照者接受了身体疾病的检查，使用了预先定义的一套检查技术。虽然两组患者的身体疾病诊断率没有显著差异，但在抑郁患者中，未确诊疾病和多种疾病的患者人数明显更高。在特定疾病中，高血压、骨关节炎和白内障在抑郁患者中更为常见。研究结果的意义在讨论中进行了讨论。
