Monday, November 1, 2010

Articles on depression #3

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117094933.htm

Conducted by Science daily on november 18 2009. it was a study by researchers at the University of Bergen, Norway and the institute of Psychiatry(Iop) at King´s College London has found that depression is as much of a risk factor for mortality as smoking. The study shows how patients with depression face an increased risk of mortality, while a copmbination of depression and anxiety in patients lowers mortality compared to those with depression alone. A survey of sixty thousand people and a comprehensive mortality database, the researchers found that over the four years of folowwing the surve the mortality risk was increased to a similiar extent in people who were depressed as in people who were smokers. The findings, Dr.Atewart makes suggestions on the focus of future develoments in the treatment of depression and anxiety.

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