Table 3.

Adjusted Hazard Ratios for Incident Stroke by Depressive Symptom Category Among HRS Participants (71 909 Outcome Wave Observations)

Depressive Symptom Category	aHR (95% CI)
Stable low/no	Reference
Recent onset	1.08 (0.81 to 1.44)
Recently remitted	1.66 (1.22 to 2.26)*
Stable high	2.14 (1.69 to 2.71)†

Model controls for sex, race or ethnicity, education, and baseline age and depressive symptoms through direct inclusion in the MSM. All models were weighted to adjust for sampling, survival, participation, and prior depressive symptoms. aHR indicates adjusted hazard ratio; HRS, Health and Retirement Study; MSM, marginal structural models.

^*P<0.01.

^†P<0.0001.