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Provedor de dados: | 55
País: | Brazil
Título: | HAM/TSP and major depression: the role of age
Autores: | Boa-Sorte,Ney; Galvão-Castro,Ana Verena; Borba,Danilo; Lima,Renan Barbalho Nunes de Castro; Galvão-Castro,Bernardo.
Data: | 2015-06-01
Ano: | 2015
Palavras-chave: | Depression; Human T-lymphotropic virus 1; Age factors; HTLV-1 associated myelopathies.
Resumo: | Objective: To investigate the role of demographic variables in the relationship between the presence of HAM/TSP and current major depression.Methods: It is a cross-sectional study of 108 HTLV-1 infected patients (47 with TSP/HAM) resident of Salvador, Brazil. The Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview, Brazilian Version 5 was used to evaluate the presence of depression. Prevalence ratios were used to describe relationship between HAM/TSP and depression. The HAM/TSP classification was carried out according to the criteria proposed by Castro-Costa et al.Results: Prevalence of depression was 37.96%. No association was observed between presence of HAM/TSP and diagnosis of current major depression in the global analysis of patients (PR: 0.94; CI 95%: 0.57-1.55). In the stratified analysis, however, greater prevalence of depres- sion was observed amongst individuals with HAM/TSP in the 18-39 age group (PR: 2.59; CI 95%: 1.36-4.95).Conclusion: Our findings suggest that age is an effect modifier in the relationship between HAM/TSP and depression, and this aspect should be considered in future studies on the topic.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/other
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1413-86702015000300314
Editor: | Brazilian Society of Infectious Diseases
Relação: | 10.1016/j.bjid.2014.12.003
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases  v.19 n.3 2015
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess