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For patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis

Sertraline Tops CBT for Reducing Depression in Dialysis Patients

Engagement intervention on treatment acceptance has no effect on acceptance of depression treatment
Women working extra-long hours and men and women working weekends have increased depressive symptoms

Atypical Temporal Work Patterns Linked to Depressive Symptoms

Women working extra-long hours, men and women working weekends have more depressive symptoms
Several unique characteristics are linked with depression at different time points before and after giving birth

Some Characteristics Unique to Depression Before, After Birth

Background traits tied to chronic depression; delivery experience tied to early postpartum depression
In older adults

CVD Does Not Modify Depression-Mortality Link in Elderly

Depression tied to higher death risk in older adults; CVD explains just small fraction of excess mortality
An expert panel for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has endorsed a drug for major depressive disorder that is a close relative to ketamine.

FDA Panel Backs Ketamine-Like Drug for Depression

Esketamine is a nasal spray that targets different pathways in the brain than other antidepressants do
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends that clinicians provide or refer counseling interventions for pregnant or postpartum women at increased risk for perinatal depression. This recommendation forms the basis of a final recommendation statement published in the Feb. 12 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

USPSTF Recommends Counseling to Prevent Perinatal Depression

Clinicians should provide counseling or referral to high-risk pregnant, postpartum women
Older people who develop depression have significantly slower gait speed and shorter step length several years before diagnosis

Slower Gait Speed, Shorter Step Length Tied to Later Depression

Slowest tertile for gait speed, shortest tertile for step length tied to higher likelihood of depression
Chronic rhinosinusitis is associated with incidence of depression and anxiety

Chronic Rhinosinusitis Linked to Depression, Anxiety

Higher hazard ratios found for depression, anxiety for patients with CRS without nasal polyps
Four maternal characteristics can predict 12-month trajectories for women with postpartum depression with 72.8 percent accuracy

Maternal Factors Predict Postpartum Depression Trajectory

Parity, education, baseline global functioning, depression severity predict chronic severe trajectory
For internal medicine interns

Depressive Symptoms Higher During Internal Medicine Internship

Faculty feedback, learning experience in inpatient rotations, work hours tied to change in symptoms