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| Sadness predicts death in older people | | Author(s) | James K Cooper, Yael Harris, John McGready |
| Journal title | Journal of Aging and Health, vol 14, no 4, November 2002 |
| Pages | pp 509-526 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Morale ; Death ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | A single survey question about feelings of sadness and depression is predictive of death occurring within 2 years. This finding is based on a national cross-sectional survey of 141,589 enrollees in Medicare aged 65+. Results were consistent across age, gender and presence or absence of known heart disease. Other responses associated with death were older age, male gender, and self-reported cancers, shortness of breath, heart failure, and smoking among other characteristics. Higher education and being married appeared to protect from death. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-021109216 A |
| Classmark | ENR: DQ: CW: 3KB: 7T |
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