Frontier mental health research: psychedelics & drug studies

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Relationship between depressive symptoms and anemia among the middle-aged and elderly: a cohort study over 4-year period

Congqi Liu, Ruihao Zhou, Xilin Peng, Tao Zhu, Wei Wei, Xuechao Hao
BMC Psychiatry Summary & key facts 2023 13 citations

This study used China’s CHARLS data from 2011 and 2015 to look at people aged 45 and older. In 10,179 people at baseline, higher depressive symptom scores were linked to lower hemoglobin and to having anemia. Over 4 years (5,887 people followed), people with depressive symptoms had higher odds of…

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