Depression

unipolar depression: A mood disorder having a clinical course involving one or more episodes of serious psychological depression that last two or more weeks each, do not have intervening episodes of mania or hypomania, and are characterized by a loss of interest or pleasure in almost all activities and by some or all of disturbances of appetite, sleep, or psychomotor functioning, a decrease in energy, difficulties in thinking or making decisions, loss of self-esteem or feelings of guilt, and suicidal thoughts or attempts.

Endpoint definition

Name F5_DEPRESSIO
Long name Depression
Hospital Discharge registry ICD-10: F32/F33, ICD-8: 79020|2980
Cause of Death registry ICD-10: F32/F33, ICD-8: 79020|2980|3004
Level in the ICD-hierarchy 3
First defined in version DF2

Summary Statistics

Key figures

All Female Male
Number of individuals 23424 15398 8026
Unadjusted prevalence (%) 10.79 12.53 8.52
Mean age at first event (years) 41.03 40.18 42.65
Case fatality at 5-years (%) 1.93 1.36 3.00

Longitudinal metrics

All Female Male
Median nb. of events per indiv. 3.0 3.0 2.0
Recurrence at 6 months (%) 57.26 60.13 51.74

Survival analyses between endpoints

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before Depression
after Depression

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