Burden of Depressive Disorders by Country, Sex, Age, and Year: Findings from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010

By A. Ferrari, F. Charlson, Rosana E Norman, S. Patten, Greg Freedman, Christopher J. L. Murray, Theo Vos, H. Whiteford. PLoS Medicine, 2013

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In this paper, Ferrari and colleagues analyzed the burden of depressive disorders in GBD 2010 and identified depressive disorders as a leading cause of burden. The authors present severity proportions; burden by country, region, age, sex, and year; as well as burden of depressive disorders as a risk factor for suicide and ischemic heart disease. Please see later in the article for the Editors' Summary

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pharmacology, Social Psychology

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/45515a92ac2d6a7e9f065dd1fbed02529a81c279

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In Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

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Citations in the corpus

• Reduced default mode network functional connectivity in patients with recurrent major depressive disorder (2019, background): “Ethnic differences may have contributed, as East Asians report lower lifetime prevalence of MDD (1), more somatic symptoms and fewer psychological symptoms (23), and differ in MDD risk genes (24).”
• Detecting Depression with Audio/Text Sequence Modeling of Interviews (2018, methodology): “Individuals suffering from depression are beset by debilitating sadness for weeks to years on end [1].”
• A meta-analysis of correlations between depression and first person singular pronoun use (2017, background): “Depression is a massive burden to society and to the individuals it afflicts (Ferrari et al., 2013).”
• Social functioning in major depressive disorder. (2016, neutral): “Major depressive disorder (MDD) frequently affects psychiatric patients in both inpatient and outpatient treatment settings, and ranks among the leading mental health causes of the global burden of disease (Ferrari et al., 2013).”