ArticleJournal of psychosomatic research2014
Depression and risk of hospitalization for pneumonia in a cohort study of older Americans.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Major depressive disorders increase the susceptibility to self-reported infections in two German cohort studies.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2023Article
- Impact of nursing home-acquired pneumonia on the domains of the novel construct of intrinsic capacity: The INCUR study.Journal of the American Geriatrics Society · 2022Article
- A matched-control study on the effects of depressive disorders following open reduction and internal fixation for acetabular fractures.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2022Article
- Post-COVID-19 Depressive Symptoms: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology, and Pharmacological Treatment.CNS drugs · 2022Review
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- Intersections between pneumonia, lowered oxygen saturation percentage and immune activation mediate depression, anxiety, and chronic fatigue syndrome-like symptoms due to COVID-19: A nomothetic network approach.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- Impact of depressive disorders on primary total shoulder arthroplasties: a matched control analysis of 113,648 Medicare patients.Shoulder & elbow · 2021Article
- Depressive Tendency and the Risk of Death from Pneumonia: The JACC Study.Internal medicine (Tokyo, Japan) · 2020Article
- Health Outcomes Associated with Adherence to Antidepressant Use during Acute and Continuation Phases of Depression Treatment among Older Adults with Dementia and Major Depressive Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2020Article
- How Specialist Aftercare Impacts Long-Term Readmission Risks in Elderly Patients With Metabolic, Cardiac, and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases: Cohort Study Using Administrative Data.JMIR medical informatics · 2020Article
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- Association Between Patient Cognitive and Functional Status and Medicare Total Annual Cost of Care: Implications for Value-Based Payment.JAMA internal medicine · 2018Observational
- The Association Between Major Depressive Disorder and Outcomes in Older Veterans Hospitalized With Pneumonia.The American journal of the medical sciences · 2018Article
- Understanding Long-Term Outcomes Following Sepsis: Implications and Challenges.Current infectious disease reports · 2016Review
- Validation of an administrative claims-based diagnostic code for pneumonia in a US-based commercially insured COPD population.International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe aim of this study is to determine if depression is independently associated with risk of hospitalization for pneumonia after adjusting for demographics, medical comorbidity, health-risk behaviors, baseline cognition and functional impairments.
methodsThis secondary analysis of prospectively collected data examined a population-based sample of 6704 Health and Retirement Study (HRS) (1998-2008) participants>50years old who consented to have their interviews linked to their Medicare claims and were without a dementia diagnosis. The eight-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale and/or International Classification of Disease, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) depression diagnoses were used to identify baseline depression. ICD-9-CM diagnoses were used to identify hospitalizations for which the principal discharge diagnosis was for bacterial or viral pneumonia. The odds of hospitalization for pneumonia for participants with depression relative to those without depression were estimated using logistic regression models. Population attributable fractions were calculated to determine the extent that hospitalizations for pneumonia could be attributable to depression.
resultsAfter adjusting for demographic characteristics, clinical factors, and health-risk behaviors, depression was independently associated with increased odds of hospitalization for pneumonia (odds ratio [OR]: 1.28, 95% confidence interval [95%CI]: 1.08, 1.53). This association persisted after adjusting for baseline cognition and functional impairments (OR: 1.24, 95%CI: 1.03, 1.50). In this cohort, 6% (95%CI: 2%, 10%) of hospitalizations for pneumonia were potentially attributable to depression.
conclusionDepression is independently associated with increased odds of hospitalization for pneumonia. This study provides additional rationale for integrating mental health care into medical settings in order to improve outcomes for older adults.
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