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A report in the May issue of Archives of General Psychiatry draws a link between people in mid-life and late-life, suffering from depression and the possibility of them developing dementia. Deborah E. Barnes, Ph.D., M.P.H., of the University of California, San Francisco and the San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

The researchers evaluated more than 13,000 long term Kaiser Permanente members, looking for a history of depressive symptoms in midlife (1964-1973) and in late life (1994-2000), and compared the results with those suffering from Alzheimer disease and vascular dementia; dementia resulting from brain damage from reduced blood flow to the brain.

Depressive symptoms were evident in 14 percent of study participants during midlife, and 9 percent later in life, while just over 4 percent suffered during both periods. The follow-up spanned six years, and 22.5 percent of patients were diagnosed with dementia, 5.5% with Alzheimer's disease and 2.3 percent with vascular dementia. Continue to read: usatoday.com

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