Goldberg E L, Comstock G W, Hornstra R K
Am J Psychiatry. 1979 Apr;136(4B):530-4.
The authors describe the results of a matched case-control analysis in which 82 pairs of subjects were selected from a large-scale community study carried out in two general populations. Cases were those of persons hospitalized during an interval between two interviews for an illness starting during that interval or persons who died during the interval. Controls were persons with no new illnesses or hospitalizations during the interval. No relationship between measures of depressive symptomatology or depressed mood and subsequent physical illness was shown. This result corroborates the findings of prospective studies in more selected populations and suggests that it is unlikely that depressed mood is related to subsequent physical illness.
作者描述了一项匹配病例对照分析的结果，该分析从在两个普通人群中开展的一项大规模社区研究中选取了82对受试者。病例为在两次访谈间隔期间因在此期间开始的疾病而住院的人，或在该间隔期间死亡的人。对照为在该间隔期间没有新疾病或住院的人。未显示抑郁症状测量指标或抑郁情绪与随后身体疾病之间存在关联。这一结果证实了在更多特定人群中进行的前瞻性研究的结果，并表明抑郁情绪不太可能与随后的身体疾病有关。
