Table 2.

Associations between diagnoses of different chronic diseases and depressive inclinations.

Dependent variable	Prevalence (%)	Depressive inclinations
		β	Std. Err.	95% CI	P value*
Eye disease	16.8%	0.155	0.047	0.063–0.25	0.001
Chronic lung disease	8.90%	0.154	0.048	0.058–0.249	0.002
Heart disease	13.60%	0.144	0.05	0.045–0.241	0.004
Rheumatoid Arthritis	27.20%	0.138	0.049	0.042–0.234	0.005
Gastrointestinal disease	22.20%	0.136	0.136	0.041–0.231	0.005
Hypertension	25.40%	0.085	0.049	− 0.012 to 0.181	0.087
Other conditions	13.30%	0.073	0.073	− 0.02 to 0.166	0.123
Stroke and cerebrovascular disease	8.40%	0.061	0.049	− 0.036 to 0.158	0.214
Cholecystitis or cholelithiasis	14.60%	0.047	0.048	− 0.047 to 0.14	0.330
Liver disease	3%	0.043	0.048	− 0.051 to 0.137	0.374
Dyslipidemia	15.30%	0.023	0.051	− 0.076 to 0.123	0.645
Diabetes	4%	0.02	0.05	− 0.079 to 0.119	0.689

β is the regression coefficient, CI is for confidence interval. Std. Err. stands for Standard Error.

Significant values are in bold.