Lifetime risk of depression: restricted to a minority or waiting for most?
- 1 December 2005
- journal article
- Published by Royal College of Psychiatrists in The British Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 187 (6), 495-496
- https://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.187.6.495
Abstract
Depression remits and recurs, but among what proportion of the population? Retrospective surveys report the lifetime risk to be around 10%. A modelling study and two prospective studies concur that close to half the population can expect one or more episodes of depression in their lifetime.Keywords
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