As depression parameters and subjective memory impairment predicted AD independently of objective cognition, clinicians should take this into account. This association was still significant after controlling for cognitive measures, but further analyses suggested that it was mediated by subjective memory impairment with worries.ĭepression might be a prodrome of AD but not of dementia of other aetiology as very late-onset depression in combination with current depressive symptoms, possibly emerging as a consequence of subjectively perceived worrisome cognitive deterioration, was most predictive. Combined very late-onset depression with current depressive symptoms was specifically predictive for later Alzheimer's disease (AD adjusted hazard ratio 5.48, 95% confidence interval 2.41-12.46, p < 0.001). In analyses controlling for age, sex, education, and apolipoprotein E4 genotype, we found that very late-onset depression (aged ≥ 70 years) and current depressive symptoms separately predicted all-cause dementia. We also examined the additive prediction of incident dementia by depression beyond cognitive impairment.Īn increase of dementia risk for higher age cut-offs of late-onset depression was found. Risk for subsequent dementia was estimated over three follow-ups (each 18 months apart) depending on history of depression, particularly age of depression onset, and current depressive symptoms using proportional hazard models. late-onset depression on subsequent dementia in a cohort of elderly general-practitioner patients (n = 2663, mean age = 81.2 years).

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