title: Hypertension and DSM-III depression in psychiatric outpatients.
abstract: Among 452 psychiatric outpatients, DSM-III diagnoses of major depression were three times as common among those with hypertensive disease as those without hypertension. Age, sex, chronic medical illness, and current antihypertensive medication did not account for these diagnostic differences.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000553:Ambulatory Care; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008370:Manuals as Topic; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012737:Sex Factors