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Depression can be physically harder on middle-age females than on males, researchers say A new Canadian study shows that middle-aged women face far greater risks of heart disease than men as a result of depression. "We are learning that depression knows very little about political correctness," said Roger McIntyre, head of the Mood Disorders Psychopharmacology Unit at Toronto's University Health Network. This study shows for the first time that depression affects women in ways that are much more significant and much more physically severe than in men, he said. The study, published in Health Reports, a Statistics Canada publication, used data from a national sample of 4,948 men and women aged 40 or older who were followed for 12 years starting in 1994-1995. The goal was to determine whether depression was linked with a higher risk of a heart disease. It was the first time the interplay between depression and heart disease among Canadians had been studied at a national level. DAVID HUTTON With a report from The Canadian Press |
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