Late-life depression and multimorbidity trajectories: the role of symptom complexity and severity.

Introduction as late-life depression is associated with poor somatic health, we aimed to investigate the role of depression severity and symptom phenotypes in the progression of somatic multimorbidity. Methods we analysed data from 3,042 dementia-free individuals (60+) participating in the populatio...

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Published in:Age & Ageing Vol. 52; no. 2; pp. 1 - 10
Main Authors: Triolo, Federico, Sjöberg, Linnea, Calderón-Larrañaga, Amaia, Murri, Martino Belvederi, Vetrano, Davide Liborio, Fratiglioni, Laura, Dekhtyar, Serhiy
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Published: Oxford University Press / USA Feb2023
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          Triolo, Federico
          Sjöberg, Linnea
          Calderón-Larrañaga, Amaia
          Murri, Martino Belvederi
          Vetrano, Davide Liborio
          Fratiglioni, Laura
          Dekhtyar, Serhiy
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          Aging Research Center , Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet and Stockholm University , Stockholm , Sweden
          Stockholm Gerontology Research Center , Stockholm , Sweden
          Institute of Psychiatry , Department of Neuroscience and Rehabilitation, University of Ferrara , Ferrara , Italy
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        Diagnosis of mental depression
        Mental depression
        Sociodemographic factors
        Old age
        Confidence intervals
        Regression analysis
        Severity of illness index
        Research funding
        Descriptive statistics
        Psychomotor disorders
        Data analysis software
        Comorbidity
        Phenotypes
        Longitudinal method
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          Diagnosis of mental depression
          Mental depression
          Sociodemographic factors
          Old age
          Confidence intervals
          Regression analysis
          Severity of illness index
          Research funding
          Descriptive statistics
          Psychomotor disorders
          Data analysis software
          Comorbidity
          Phenotypes
          Longitudinal method
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        comorbidity
        depression
        epidemiology
        longitudinal
        older people
        psychosomatic
        symptom network
        comorbidity
        depression
        epidemiology
        longitudinal
        older people
        psychosomatic
        symptom network
      ab: Introduction as late-life depression is associated with poor somatic health, we aimed to investigate the role of depression severity and symptom phenotypes in the progression of somatic multimorbidity. Methods we analysed data from 3,042 dementia-free individuals (60+) participating in the population-based Swedish National Study on Aging and Care in Kungsholmen. Using the baseline clinical assessment of 21 depressive symptoms from the Comprehensive Psychopathological Rating Scale, we: (i) diagnosed major, minor (in accordance with DSM-IV-TR) and subsyndromal depression; (ii) extracted symptom phenotypes by applying exploratory network graph analysis. Somatic multimorbidity was measured as the number of co-occurring chronic diseases over a 15-year follow-up. Linear mixed models were used to explore somatic multimorbidity trajectories in relation to baseline depression diagnoses and symptom phenotypes, while accounting for sociodemographic and behavioural factors. Results in multi-adjusted models, relative to individuals without depression, those with major (β per year: 0.33, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.06–0.61) and subsyndromal depression (β per year: 0.21, 95%CI: 0.12–0.30) experienced an accelerated rate of somatic multimorbidity accumulation, whereas those with minor depression did not. We identified affective, anxiety, cognitive, and psychomotor symptom phenotypes from the network analysis. When modelled separately, an increase in symptom score for each phenotype was associated with faster multimorbidity accumulation, although only the cognitive phenotype retained its association in a mutually adjusted model (β per year: 0.07, 95%CI: 0.03–0.10). Conclusions late-life major and subsyndromal depression are associated with accelerated somatic multimorbidity. Depressive symptoms characterised by a cognitive phenotype are linked to somatic health change in old age.
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