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Sadness and trouble doing daily tasks go hand-in-hand in older people

Original Title

Bidirectional, longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and IADL/ADL disability in older adults in China: a national cohort study

doi:10.1186/s12877-024-05248-y

47%

Moderate Quality

Methodology score · 47/100

Cohort Human

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In older adults in China, feeling sadder over time is linked to having more trouble with daily tasks like cooking or dressing, and having more trouble with those tasks is also linked to feeling sadder.

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Zhu X, Wang Y, Luo Y, Ding R, Shi Z, He P

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DOI:10.1186/s12877-024-05248-y

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