title: Environmental factors in affective disorders.
abstract: What are the factors that may precipitate overt depressive illness in the predisposed patient? The available data indicate that for unipolar disease, at least, the clearest correlations are not with economic or social status or with race, but rather with sex. Women display a lifetime risk about twice that of men in the same population, and the differences in social roles of the two sexes are probably largely responsible.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D000367:Age Factors; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D012934:Social Isolation; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors