Abstract
Background
Depression and anxiety are common mental health conditions in the older adult population. Understanding the trajectories of these will help implement treatments and interventions.
Aims
This study aims to identify depression and anxiety trajectories in older adults, evaluate the interrelationship of these conditions, and recognize trajectory-predicting characteristics.
Methods
Group-based dual trajectory modeling (GBDTM) was applied to the data of 3983 individuals, aged 65 years or older who participated in the Korean Health Panel Study between 2008 and 2015. Logistic regression was used to identify the association between characteristics and trajectory groups.
Results
Four trajectory groups from GBDTM were identified within both depression and anxiety outcomes. Depression outcome fell into “low-flat (87.0%)”, “low-to-middle (8.8%)”, “low-to-high (1.3%)” and “high-stable (2.8%)” trajectory groups. Anxiety outcome fell into “low-flat (92.5%)”, “low-to-middle (4.7%)”, “high-to-low (2.2%)” and “high-curve (0.6%)” trajectory groups. Interrelationships between depression and anxiety were identified. Members of the high-stable depression group were more likely to have “high-to-low” or “high-curved” anxiety trajectories. Female sex, the presence of more than three chronic diseases, and being engaged in income-generating activity were significant predictors for depression and anxiety.
Conclusions
Dual trajectory analysis of depression and anxiety in older adults shows that when one condition is present, the probability of the other is increased. Sex, having more than three chronic diseases, and not being involved in income-generating activity might increase risks for both depression and anxiety. Health policy decision-makers may use our findings to develop strategies for preventing both depression and anxiety in older adults.
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Introduction
As well as the increased physical comorbidities associated with aging, older adults are known to be at risk of both depression and anxiety disorders [1]. The research focused on studying the comorbidity of depression and anxiety in elders has increased recently [2]. One likely reason for this is the aging population, with the proportion of older adults increasing every year in almost every country [3]. In South Korea, concerns related to aging are substantial, as individuals 65 years or older constitute approximately 14% of the overall population, which is more than twice the proportion of people aged 14 or younger [4]. Another reason for the combined interest in depression and anxiety is that a variety of physical health conditions common to aging may increase the development of mental health problems in the older adult population. For example, older adults who suffer one or more chronic diseases have a greater chance of developing late-onset depression and/or anxiety [5,6,7].
Although it has been suggested that comorbidity between depression and anxiety is less in the older than younger adults [8], it is still of considerable concern in older adults. Beekman et al. found that 47.5% of individuals aged 65 years or older who suffer from depression also have a comorbid anxiety disorder [9]. Other research from Gould based on the Health and Retirement Study [10] to found that, compared with elevated depressive symptoms, anxiety was associated with greater multimorbidity in older adults. Many studies showed that older adults with multimorbidity had more risk to be depressed or anxious compared to those without multimorbidity [10,11,12]. Thus, it was important to consider the comorbidity of depression and anxiety.
A Korean study including 1204 older adults showed that 22.8% had comorbid anxiety and depression [13]. In terms of psychopathology, older adults with both anxiety and depression have been found to have greater severity than patients with only one disorder [1]. Depression comorbid with anxiety has resulted in more severe somatic symptoms than patients with only depression [14, 15]. Moreover, poorer social function and higher suicide rates are more likely to persist in the comorbid depression and anxiety group than those with only depression or anxiety [16, 17].
Common risk factors for both depression and anxiety in older adults have been categorized into biological, psychological and social factors [18], including the influences of physical illness, disability, bereavement, and others. Nevertheless, longitudinal studies suggest that there are some differences in risk factors between late-life depression and anxiety. Depression and anxiety have both been associated with cognitive impairments. Multiple studies have shown that depressive disorder was associated with cognitive impairment such as deficits in verbal and nonverbal learning, memory, attention, visual and auditory processing, everyday problem-solving ability directly and indirectly, executive function, processing speed, and reasoning [19,20,21]. Anxious subjects did not differ significantly from depressed subjects in any measure of cognitive function [22]. However, anxiety was more often associated with short-term and delayed memory, blackouts/memory loss, complex visuospatial performance and visual learning, poorer performance on verbal working memory, poor global cognitive functioning, working memory, inhibition, information processing speed, problem-solving including concept formation and mental flexibility [22, 23].
Interestingly, psychological risk factors have been found to be similar for depression and anxiety [9, 24, 25]. Social risk factors such as marital status and social network size have generally correlated with depression [26,27,28]. Social risk factors are risks related to social support or social ties/isolation, such as one’s social network and frequency of contact with relatives and friends [29]. In contrast, risk factors associated with anxiety but not depression include being childless, having experienced traumatic life events, and having low income [9, 24, 25, 30,31,32,33,34].
Previously reported trajectory analyses of both depression and anxiety have usually been developed based on data from children and adolescents [35,36,37,38]. To study similar trajectories in older adults, researchers have generally focused only on depression [39,40,41,42,43,44]. However, depression and anxiety trajectories have rarely been studied simultaneously. Three studies were found exploring the development of depression and anxiety trajectories in older adults [45,46,47]. Holmes et al. [45] and Spinhoven et al. [47] used latent growth mixture modeling to identify different course trajectories, Rzewuska et al. [46] used latent class analysis to explore depression and anxiety trajectories separately. The present study seeks to examine the longitudinal association between depression and anxiety in the older population using a joint trajectory modeling method. The aims of our study were (i) to identify distinct trajectories of depression or anxiety; (ii) to describe the baseline characteristics among trajectory groups of depression or anxiety; (iii) to estimate conditional probabilities of anxiety given depression and conditional probabilities of depression given anxiety; (iv) to evaluate the strength of association between predictors of depression as well as predictors of anxiety.
Methods
Data and sample
This study utilized a subset of a longitudinal survey called the Korea Health Panel Study (KHPS), which is an official database designed and maintained since 2008 by the Korea Institute for Health and Social Affairs and the National Health Insurance Service.
More detailed descriptions of the study design and profile have been published elsewhere [48]. Briefly, KHPS used a stratified sampling frame taken from the Korean Population and Housing Census in 2005. Sample weights for the KHPS were calculated after adjusting for unequal selection probabilities/non-responses and making a population distribution disclosure via post-stratification corresponding to the sample distribution.
The KHPS began in 2008 and incorporated a total of 24,616 participants from 7387 households. Due to ongoing dropouts and to secure statistical reliability, new household members were added. In 2014, KHPS was strengthened with the addition of more the 2520 households to mitigate attrition. Using computer-assisted personal interviews, trained staff collected the data at three general levels: household, individual, and case-based. Comprehensive assessments of the use of healthcare services, cost of healthcare, and potentially influencing these have been conducted annually since 2008. Further details of the KHPS administration and mission are available on the KHPS website [49]. Overall, 3983 adults who were 65 or older were studied during the study period between 2008 and 2015. Additional subjects were added in the year 2014 to the original data collected in the year 2008. The follow-up participation rates among this study’s sample were 91.0, 63.4, 60.6, 56.5, 53.4, 50.0 and 46.4% from year 2009 to 2015, respectively. The average number of responses was 5.2 times (Fig. S1 in Supplement Material).
Measures
The data collection methods for the KHPS involved the investigators visiting the target households and using a computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) technique.
Covariates included sex, age, education, marital status, residential area, number of members in the household, household composition type, housing type, current chronic disease status, private health insurance, household income quantile, and household expense [48]. Age was categorized as 65–69, 70–74, 75–79, and 80 years and older. Sex was coded 0 = male and 1 = female. Education was coded as 0 = no education, 1 = Grade 1–6, and 2 = Grade 7 or higher. Residential area was categorized into two areas and coded as metro city = 0 and non-metro city = 1. Household composition type was categorized as 1 = living alone, 2 = living with a spouse, and 3 = other mixed living arrangements. Housing type was categorized as 1 = detached house, 2 = apartment, and 3 = other types of houses. Exercise and walking were scored separately on an 8-point Likert scale that asked respondents how many days during the past week you did intensive/moderate physical activity or walked more than 10 min a day. Responses ranged from 0 to 7 (none = 0, once a week = 1, 2 days a week = 2, 3 days a week = 3, 4 days a week = 4, 5 days a week = 5, 6 days a week = 6, 7 days a week = 7). Drinking was scored on an 8-point Likert scale that asked, “Over the past year, how often did you drink alcohol?” Again an 8-point Likert scale (never = 0; recently non-drink = 1, less than once per month = 2, once per month = 3, 2–3 times per month = 4; once per week = 4; 2–3 times a week = 6; almost daily = 7). In our study, exercise and walking variables were categorized as ‘none’, ‘≤ 3 days/week’ and ‘> 3 days/week’. Drinking variable was categorized as ‘none’, ‘less than twice/week’, ‘2–4 times/week’ and ‘almost daily’. In the study database, chronic diseases were hypertension, heart disease, diabetes, back pain, cataracts, osteoporosis, and arthritis, loss of hearing or vision which was common in the older adults and lead to impaired daily functioning. The number of current chronic diseases was coded as ‘yes’ = having 3 or more of these chronic diseases, and ‘no’ = otherwise.
Diagnostic criteria for depression and anxiety disorder were based on DSM-5 (The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). The main dichotomous outcomes of depression and anxiety were collected from medical administrative expenditure data including prescription drug receipts or medical institutions/pharmacies. If there was any use of inpatient treatment, outpatient treatment, or emergency-service utilization each year from the case-based survey relevant to depression or anxiety, the outcome was assigned a value of 1, otherwise, the outcome was assigned a value of 0.
Statistical analysis
The analysis commenced with basic descriptive statistics to characterize the study sample.
General group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) with single repeated measurement outcome, also called latent class growth modeling, can identify unobserved heterogeneous subgroups within the sample population and develop trajectories based on the trends within them [50]. Individuals are placed into the most likely subgroups relying on the largest posterior probability (i.e., the probability that an individual with a particular outcome pattern belongs to a particular group among those suggested by the model) [51].
Group-based dual trajectory modeling (GBDTM) extended from GBTM is a joint model to determines the trajectories of two associated outcomes based on the conditional probability of developing a given outcome, such as depression and anxiety in our study [52]. The relationship between the two outcomes has been labeled as “comorbidity” or “heterotypic continuity” [53]. “Comorbidity” recognizes multiple illness states occurring at the same time [54]. “Heterotypic continuity” recognizes that two outcomes may be linked within an individual but do not occur simultaneously, introducing the possibility of causality [55]. In GBDTM, the linkage of trajectory groups identified within the respective two associated outcomes relies on the conditional probabilities. For example, since depression and anxiety are diagnosed as co-current events in our study, the conditional probabilities for both depression given anxiety and anxiety given depression were considered [56]. Therefore, this conditional probability represents the likelihood of a person having depression if anxiety is present and vice versa [53].
To select the most appropriate number of trajectories, separate GBTM for depression and anxiety with the number of trajectory groups from two to five were tried. All the trajectories from the model were assumed to be linear. Bayesian Information Criterion (BIC) [57], Akaike Information Criterion (AIC) [58], and the average posterior probability [59] were utilized to evaluate the model fit. Initially, the separate GBTM for depression and anxiety were conducted. Then, based on the result from the separate GBTM, GBDTM was developed. The missing values of response variable can be imputed missing at random (MAR) assumption. i.e., when data are MAR, information from the dataset can be used to impute missing data prior to input into the trajectory model [60].
SAS programming 9.4 and Proc Traj package was used to fit trajectory modeling, which employs an imputation technique to assign values for missing data. The significant level of this study was set at α = 0.05.
Results
3983 participants, aged 65 or older from KHPS, were included during the study period between 2008 and 2015. In this sample, 57% were female, and the average age at baseline measurement was 72.4 (SD ± 6) years. Among these participants, 63% had never received any education or only finished elementary school, 62.5% lived with their spouse, and 1.6% lived alone. The majority (83%) reported that their income level was lower than the median income level of the complete survey sample, and 37% were still involved in income-generating activities. Only 38.2% lived in metro-cities, and 57.4% resided in a detached house.
Based on model selection criteria, four trajectory groups were identified as the best fit for both the depression and anxiety outcomes from GBDTM (Table 1). Figure 1 presents trajectory groups with depression and anxiety. Within the depression outcome, four distinct trajectory groups were identified using dual trajectory modeling (Fig. 1A): low-flat trajectory group (87.0%), low-to-middle trajectory group (8.8%), low-to-high (1.3%) and high-stable trajectory group (2.8%). Likewise, within anxiety, four distinct trajectory groups were also identified using dual trajectory modeling (Fig. 1B): low-flat trajectory group (92.5%), low-to-middle trajectory group (4.7%), high-to-low trajectory group (2.2%) and high-curved trajectory group (0.6%).
The subpopulation characteristics are described based on the respective trajectory groups from GBDTM (Tables 2 and 3).
Conditional probabilities from GBDTM provided a clear view of the association between depression and anxiety in the dual trajectory model. The most likely anxiety trajectory regardless of depression trajectory was low-flat, with probabilities ranging from 95.7% probability in the low-flat depression group to 68.5% in the high-stable depression group (Fig. 2A). For interpretation of conditional probabilities from GBDTM in Fig. 2A, of subjects with low-flat depression (i.e., given a low-flat depression), 95.7% belong to the low-flat anxiety trajectory group. Likewise, 22.9% of low-to-middle depression trajectory participants were in the low-to-middle anxiety trajectory group, and 21.1% of the high-stable depression group followed a high-to-low anxiety trajectory. Persistent anxiety trajectories (high-curved) were only observed among respondents with low-to-middle or high-stable trajectory depression patterns and in small proportions (Fig. 2A). Figure 2B illustrates the conditional probability of depression given anxiety, suggesting that the highest depression trajectories (High-Stable depression) are seen in the highest anxiety groups (high-low and high-curved).
Univariate logistic regression analysis for depression and anxiety trajectory groups are presented in Tables S1 and S2 in Supplement Material. In multivariate analyses of depression (Table 4), compared to the low-flat depression group, individuals in the low-to-high depression trajectory were more likely to be in the low-to-middle anxiety trajectory group (OR = 5.80, 95% CI: 1.83–19.68, p-value = 0.005) and less likely to be participating in income-generating activity (OR = 2.79, 95% CI: 1.15–6.80, p-value = 0.024). Similarly, members of the low-to-middle depression group were also more likely to be in the low-to-middle anxiety trajectory group or the high-curved anxiety trajectory group, be female and have multiple chronic diseases. Participants in the high-stable depression trajectory group were more often in the low-to-middle or high-curved anxiety and were more likely to be female, have multiple chronic diseases, and not be income-generating activity compared to the low-flat depression group.
When anxiety trajectory groups were used as the outcome, the depression groups showed significant association with the anxiety trajectories in the multivariate logistic analysis (Table 5). Female sex was a significant predictor for the low-to-middle anxiety group and the high-to-low anxiety group. Not being involved in income generating activity was another predictor of the high-to-low anxiety group membership compared to the low-flat group membership (OR = 2.17, 95% CI: 1.28–3.69, p-value = 0.025).
Discussion
In this longitudinal study, data gathered from the KHPS included 3983 Korean older adults who were thought to have a higher potential of receiving care for depression and/or anxiety symptoms within an 8 year follow-up period. To examine the tendency to suffer from these two mental health problems simultaneously, which may change over time, GBDTM was applied to identify trajectories of co-occurring depression and anxiety. Among the four groups recognized for their differing probabilities of depression, a large majority showed no depression and were generally unlikely to experience anxiety concomitantly. However, slightly more than 10% did experience depression during the follow up period, with most of these individuals showing a gradual increase in depression probability. Among individuals following this trajectory, 20% also experienced a moderate increase in anxiety risk over time. Less than 3% of the subjects were identified as having high stable depression, and more than 30% of them had comorbid anxiety. Regarding anxiety, also recognized to follow four trajectories, the vast majority of respondents did not experience this and were also free of depression, although 5% again saw a slow increase in anxiety propensity over time. This was accompanied by an increasing depression tendency in just under half the cases. About 2% of the individuals showed a slow decrease of anxiety trend over time, and 30% of them had a high probability of depression. Only 13 (0.6%) patients were found in the trajectory showing a high curved anxiety probability, and more than half also had increasing depression over time. In general, female sex, not involved in income-generating activity, and membership in a trajectory suggesting a risk for the alternate condition independent predicted a more vulnerable risk trajectory than “low-flat” for both depression and anxiety.
Our presentation of four trajectory groups aligns with other depression trajectories studies focused on older adults [40, 41, 44, 61]. However, researchers have only infrequently identified older adult anxiety trajectories: a six-year cohort study of depression and anxiety trajectories in older adults by Holmes et al., which only involved two trajectories (a stable anxiety trajectory (82%) and an elevated anxiety trajectory (18%)) [45] and two studies recognizing three anxiety trajectory groups in older adults [46, 47]. In our study, four anxiety trajectory groups were identified. The anxiety trajectory shapes of these latter studies are different than our study as one focused on depressed older patients and the other on musculoskeletal pain patients.
Among our four depression trajectory groups, no decreasing trajectory was found for depression. One low depression trajectory group, one high depression trajectory group, and two increasing trajectories were identified in our data, consistent with findings in other studies [39,40,41,42, 44, 61]. The high-stable depression group is thought to have less likelihood of recovery in our older population as this life stage is more likely to include reduced life satisfaction, low income and living quality, and more adverse health conditions [62,63,64]. The low-to-high depression group had an intense increase in depression occurrence from 2009 to 2013, but this group only contained 31 older adults. The markedly increased probability may have been precipitated by sudden serious events, such as the loss of a spouse, physical incapacity, etc. However, among anxiety trajectories, a declining trajectory and a curved shape trajectory showed evidence of a decreasing risk. The declining trajectories were also identified in other studies [45, 47]. A possible explanation for this observed decline is that individuals adapt or cope better with their anxiety and no longer seek treatment. Another explanation may be that other more pressing medical conditions emerge, eclipsing anxiety management; as such anxiety may still have been present but not identified [65]. The high-curve anxiety trajectory only involved 13 older adults, which is extremely small. However, because of the constant high anxiety probability of these subjects, this group is important and cannot be replaced by other trajectory groups.
The association between depression and anxiety was clearly identified from the conditional probabilities of the trajectories and the logistic regression odds ratios. The current finding that the low-to-high and low-to-middle depression group also were at risk of being in the low-to-middle anxiety group suggests that older adults with an increasing trend of depression over time also have a greater chance of increasing anxiety, consistent with other research [66, 67]. Moreover, low-to-middle depression group members made up a high proportion in the high-curved anxiety group, suggesting that older patients who had severe anxiety may suffer mild depression as well. High-stable depression group members were more likely to have anxiety risk following the high-to-low and, less frequently, the high-curved anxiety trajectory; individuals in this particular overlap have serious mental health conditions and require more attention [2]. The association between depression and anxiety status was also supported by the inverse of these findings; individuals in this study who did not have one of the study conditions tended not to have the other either.
Our evaluation of demographic risk factors showed variable consistency with the literature. In the majority of the depression and anxiety studies, sex does have an association with these conditions, suggesting older females are generally at greater risk [68, 69]. Our study’s findings in this regard are consistent with results from other trajectory studies [43,44,45, 70]. Nevertheless, other studies have found no sex-specific differences when investigating depression and anxiety [47, 71]. This inconsistency may be related to different economic circumstances, social-cultural factors, psychosocial gender roles, or other population differences. In our study, age was found to be a significant univariate predictor of depression only, consistent with Holmes et al., 2018 [45]. Level of education was not a significant predictor of either outcome, which is consistent with some studies [45, 72, 73], but not others [39,40,41,42,43,44, 47, 74]. In our study, this lack of relationship may be attributable to the relatively low education level in our respondents overall.
Social factors are also known to influence mental health. Some studies suggest that older adults living alone or those having no partner within an isolated social environment have a higher risk of depression or anxiety [70, 75,76,77,78,79]. However, living alone and marital status were not related to the outcomes in our study, which is consistent with other studies [41,42,43, 46, 80]. The risk behaviors of smoking or excessive drinking might also increase the risk of depression and anxiety [40, 41, 77, 81]. Nevertheless, this association was not identified in our study or in the work of others [44, 75]. Studies show that homeownership reduces the risk of depression and anxiety [75, 82], but this association did not remain significant in the multivariate analysis. Income-generating activity, however, did predict both depression and anxiety trajectory groups, suggesting that people in later life who were still working and had financial security may have better mental health. Poor mental health and ability to work may affect each other both ways, in addition, that there may be alternative explanations for working later in life (financially insecure/secure) [83,84,85,86].
Chronic diseases (hypertension, heart disease, stroke, diabetes, asthma, cancer, arthritis, osteoporosis, back pain, cataracts, loss of hearing or vision) are understandably difficult challenges that may impact mental health in older adults. In studying the relationship between depression, anxiety, and chronic disease, Clarke and Kay reviewed 159 papers and found that depression was correlated with nearly all chronic diseases [87]. However, anxiety was only associated with heart disease, stroke, and diabetes mellitus. It was further found that patients with depression and anxiety who were also diagnosed with heart disease, stroke, cancer, and arthritis were more difficult to treat [87]. In our study, the older adults who had more than three chronic diseases were more likely to develop depression. However, in the anxiety trajectory groups, chronic disease was only significant in the “high-to-low” group from the univariate analysis, but not in the multivariate analysis. Previous studies have suggested that in older adults, physical illness or disability is generally positively correlated with depression and anxiety [75, 88,89,90], but in our univariate analysis, physical/mental disability was not observed to predict these outcomes.
Several limitations should be considered in this study. Firstly, in this study we moved the additional participants in 2014 to baseline measurement 2008 (Fig. S1). Since they joined the study in 2014 (6 years after the initial study time), so the social and economic situation might be changed. However, we assume the change would be ignorable. Secondly, these outcomes were collected from medical expenditures and prescription drug receipts or from medical institutions/pharmacies, potentially leading to inadequate recognition of outcomes in our sample. This is particularly true in the context of other comorbid chronic disease conditions [91]. Another limitation was the low prevalence of anxiety across the survey period which limited predictor evaluation, particularly in the poorly populated trajectories such as the “high-curved” group (n = 13). Furthermore, although the current study employed data from a large older adults subsample of the KHPS dataset, around 35% of the outcome measurements were missing, which might have resulted in bias even though imputations were used under the missing at random assumption. Our sensitivity analysis with complete data showed that depression had three trajectory groups (high-stable, low-to-middle, low-flat). However, anxiety had four trajectory groups, which was close to the result with imputation (Fig. S2 in Supplement Material). Another limitation is that the variables included in this study did not contain all the potentially important health and psychosocial aspects that might be associated with depression and anxiety, such as stressful life events and social/family support information. Lastly, these data were all collected from the specific cultural context of Korean older adults, which may not be generalizable to all contexts.
In summary, four trajectory groups of both depression and anxiety were generated among the older adults of the KHPS dataset. Most older adults belonged to the low-flat trajectory group for both depression (87.0%) and anxiety (92.5%), which suggests that older adults do not identify depression and anxiety as problems. However, among those who do, an interrelationship between these diagnoses, particularly in those with anxiety, was evident from GBDTM. Female sex, the presence of 3 or more chronic diseases, and involvement in income-generating activity were found to be additional predictors for a concerning depression trajectory group, and except for chronic diseases, for the anxiety trajectories as well. The findings of this study can be used to assist health policy decision-makers in identifying individuals at risk for comorbid depression and anxiety and aid in devising supports for older individuals at risk of deteriorating mental health. In this study, we applied the dual trajectory modeling method, which has been rarely used in latent class analysis. Utilizing this kind of joint modeling linking two repeated measurement outcomes with non-ignorable inter-correlation will provide a more comprehensive approach research that allows us to better understand the study group characteristics and their direction of change over time.
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Korea Health Panel Study (KHPS) data is available at https://www.khp.re.kr:444/eng/main.do
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. Univariate Logistic Regression Analyses with Depression Trajectory Groups. Estimation of odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (C.I.). Low-flat depression as the reference group. Table S2. Univariate Logistic Regression Analyses with Anxiety Trajectory Groups. Estimation of odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence interval (C.I.). Low-flat anxiety as the reference group. Fig. S1. Study flow chart. Fig. S2. Depression and Anxiety Trajectories with complete data (n = 1785). The solid line indicates the observed value; the dot line the dashed line indicates the predicted value. A and B are depression and anxiety trajectories in group-based dual trajectory modeling, respectively.
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Cheng, Y., Thorpe, L., Kabir, R. et al. Latent class growth modeling of depression and anxiety in older adults: an 8-year follow-up of a population-based study. BMC Geriatr 21, 550 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12877-021-02501-6
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