Excess mortality in depressive and anxiety disorders: The Lifelines Cohort Study.

Richard C Oude VoshaarI AprahamianMarcus Kiiti Borges Rob H S van den BrinkR M MarijnissenEmiel O HoogendijkB van MunsterHans W Jeuring

Published in: European psychiatry : the journal of the Association of European Psychiatrists (2021)

In particular, depressive disorder is associated with excess mortality in people below 60 years, independent of their lifestyle. This effect seems partly explained by multimorbidity and frailty, which suggest that chronic disease management of depression-associated somatic morbidity needs to be (further) improved.

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