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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Geriatr Psychiatry. 2014 Nov 25;23(7):671–683. doi: 10.1016/j.jagp.2014.11.003

Table 3.

Chronic conditions and depression

Normal
(n = 778,
69.7%)
Mild
(n = 218,
19.5%)
Clinical
(n = 120,
10.8%)
χ2 P Total
(n = 1,116)
Hypertension 472 (60.7%) 140 (64.2%) 73 (60.8%) 0.92 .630 685 (61.4%)
Diabetes 181 (23.3%) 67 (30.7%) 43 (35.8%) 11.57 .003 291 (26.1%)
Arthritis 51 (6.6%) 30 (13.8%) 31 (25.8%) 46.96 <.001 112 (10.0%)
Cholesterol 275 (35.3%) 72 (33.0%) 35 (29.2%) 1.94 .380 382 (34.2%)
Osteoporosis 120 (15.4%) 32 (14.7%) 24 (20.0%) 1.88 .390 176 (15.8%)
Digestive disorders 46 (5.9%) 31 (14.2%) 19 (15.8%) 23.89 <.001 96 (8.6%)
Prostate/urinary 30 (3.9%) 3 (1.4%) 6 (5.0%) 4.01 .135 39 (3.5%)
Hyperthyroidism 48 (6.2%) 11 (5.0%) 4 (3.3%) 1.75 .416 63 (5.6%)
CVD 67 (8.6%) 26 (11.9%) 12 (10.0%) 2.25 .325 105 (9.4%)
Eye 14 (1.8%) 3 (1.4%) 1 (0.8%) 0.71 .702 18 (1.6%)
COPD 11 (1.4%) 6 (2.8%) 7 (5.8%) 10.12 .006 24 (2.2%)
Renal 11 (1.4%) 5 (2.3%) 2 (1.7%) 0.83 .659 18 (1.6%)
Cancer/other 14 (1.8%) 4 (1.8%) 5 (4.2%) 2.95 .228 23 (2.1%)

Note: Degrees of freedom (df) is 2, unless noted otherwise.