title: The epidemiology of depressive disorders.
abstract: The Zürich cohort study of a community sample identified, up to age 35, a lifetime prevalence rate for DSM mania/hypomania of 5.5%, half of these cases also met the criteria for major depressive episodes. The lifetime prevalence rates obtained for major depressive disorder were 17.85% and the rate for all depressive subgroups including dysthymia, minor depression, recurrent brief depression and major depression was 35.4%. Data on the validity of the diagnostic subgroups suggest that these high prevalence rates are based on clinically relevant case definitions.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric University Hospital Zürich, Switzerland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Angst
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012737:Sex Factors