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Predictors of cerebrovascular event reoccurrence in patients with depression: a retrospective cohort study

  • Institute of Acupuncture and Anesthesia, Shanghai Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, China
  • SLaM South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

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Abstract

Objectives: To identify predictors of recurrent cerebrovascular morbidity in a cohort of patients with depression and a cerebrovascular disease (CBVD) history.
Methods: We identified patients with previously hospitalised depressive disorder and CBVD ascertained between 2008 and 2017 using data from the Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre Case Register linked to national hospitalisation. Using depression diagnosis as the index date we followed patients until first hospitalised CBVD recurrence. Sociodemographic data, symptom and functioning scores of Health of the Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS), medications and comorbidities were extracted and modelled in multivariate survival analyses to identify predictors of CBVD re-occurrence.
Results: Of 1292 patients with depression and CBVD (mean age 75.6 years; 56.6% female), 264 (20.4%) experienced fatal/non-fatal CBVD recurrence during a median follow-up duration of 1.66 years. In multivariate Cox regression models, a higher risk of CBVD recurrence was predicted by older age (HR, 1.02; 95 % CI, 1.01-1.04) (P=0.002), physical health problems (moderate – severe HR, 2.47; 95 % CI, 1.45-4.19) (P=0.001), anticoagulant (HR, 1.40; 95 % CI, 1.01-1.93) (P=0.041) and antipsychotic medication (HR, 0.66; 95 % CI 0.44-0.99) (P=0.047). Neither depression severity, mental health symptoms, functional status, nor antidepressant prescribing were significantly associated with CBVD recurrence.
Conclusions: Approximately one in five patients with depression and CBVD experienced a CBVD recurrence over a median follow-up time of twenty months. Risk of CBVD recurrence was largely dependent on age and physical health rather than on severity of depressive symptoms, co-morbid mental health or functional problems, or psychotropic prescribing.
Original languageEnglish
JournalBMJ Open
Publication statusAccepted/In press - 25 Nov 2019

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  1. SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
    SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

  • depression
  • cerebrovascular disease recurrence
  • retrospective
  • cohort study

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