BACKGROUND In clinical practice patients with unipolar depression present with a variety of symptom clusters that may combine together in many different ways. However, only few factor analytic studies used general psychopathology scales to investigate the symptom structure of unipolar depression. METHODS The study included 163 consecutive inpatients with an ICD-10 diagnosis of depressive diso...

Gravity-based cross-sectional evidence indicates that currency unions stimulate trade as much or more than do free trade areas. Thus currencies are a source of the home-country bias in trade. This paper extends such findings to estimate the ultimate benefits of currency unions, via trade, in terms of income per capita. We use a large data set of economic and geographic variables for over 200 co...

BACKGROUND Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the leading cause of suicidal behaviors. Risk related to suicide attempts among individuals with MDD remains uninvestigated in upper northern Thailand, where the completed suicide rate is the highest in the nation. OBJECTIVE To examine risk related to suicide attempts among individuals with MDD. METHODS Individuals diagnosed with MDD using the I...

We screened 30 Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates from dogs and cats at a single animal hospital in Guangdong Province, China. Among them, 12 K. pneumoniae strains possessed high-level resistance to amikacin and gentamicin and these were screened for 16S rRNA methyltransferase (16S-RMTase) genes. And then the genes positive isolates were detected for ESBLs (extended spectrum β-lactamases) and analy...

BACKGROUND Data linkage studies find that depression before or after a breast cancer diagnosis predicts reduced survival. This study aimed to determine whether depression or bipolar recorded in routine hospital admission data independently predicts survival in English breast cancer patients and whether onset in relation to cancer diagnosis is significant. METHODS Data on 77,173 women diagnose...

BACKGROUND In this study we wished to determine the diagnostic accuracy of unaided general practitioners' (GPs') clinical diagnosis in the evaluation of depression in depressed patients under their care compared with the Beck Depression Inventory II (BDI-II). SUBJECTS AND METHODS From 17,000 patients in 10 GPs' offices as representative sample in the city of Zagreb, 5100 patients from three G...

Introduction Psychiatric disorders are often characterised by cognitive impairment. The Screen for Cognitive Impairment in Psychiatry (SCIP) was developed routine screening of psychiatric patients and is available several languages. Objectives Using the German version (SCIP-G), 3 studies were conducted: 1. feasibility, reliability, validity SCIP-G investigated [Sachs et al. Schizophr. Res. Cogn...

Abstract Background Mental health disorders and cardiovascular diseases are closely associated. The impact of mental on disease risk could be related to associated smoking, high blood pressure, cholesterol. Despite shared factors, there remains a paucity information incident atrial fibrillation (AF) incidence in patients with disorders. Purpose To assess the association between AF, especially a...