ReviewRevista panamericana de salud publica = Pan American journal of public health2022
[Depressive symptoms and mortality in older people in Latin America: systematic review and meta-analysisSíntomas de depresión y mortalidad en personas mayores en América Latina: revisión sistemática con metanálisis].
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- The application of metagenomics in the detection of arboviruses in mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidade): a systematic review.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2025Pooled it
- Detection of Plasmodium in Anopheles spp (Diptera: Nematocera: Culicidae) using molecular biology techniques: a systematic review.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2025Pooled it
- [Depression and anxiety in primary care patients with hemodialysis].Revista medica del Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social · 2024Article
- Association of both depressive symptoms scores and specific depressive symptoms with all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality.Annals of general psychiatry · 2024Article
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Abstract
Objective: To determine the existence of association between depressive symptoms and mortality in older individuals in Latin America. Method: A systematic review with meta-analysis was performed based on published studies indexed in PubMed, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), Web of Science, Cochrane Library, Scopus, and LILACS ( Results: Five studies, performed in Brazil and Mexico, were included in the meta-analysis, for a total of 8 954 older individuals. RR for mortality in the presence of depressive symptoms was 1.44 (95%CI: 1.16; 1.78). Heterogeneity was 80.87%. Meta-regression showed that the higher the proportion of women in the sample, the higher the mortality risk associated with depressive symptoms; and that the longer the study follow-up, the lower the risk of mortality associated with depressive symptoms. Conclusion: The presence of depressive symptoms was positively associated with mortality in older Latin American individuals. The RR for death was 44.0% higher in individuals with depressive symptoms as compared to those without depressive symptoms. The main study limitations were the lower number of studies retrieved through systematic review and the variety of scales used to determine the presence of depressive symptoms.
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