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LONDON: Depression is more damaging to everyday health than chronic diseases such as angina, arthritis, asthma and diabetes, researchers said on Friday.
And if people are ill with other conditions, depression makes them worse, the researchers found. “We report the largest population-based worldwide study to our knowledge that explores the effect of depression in comparison with four other chronic diseases on health state,” the researchers wrote in the Lancet medical journal.
Somnath Chatterji of the World Health Organisation, who led the study, said researchers calculated the impact of different conditions by asking people questions about their capacities to function in everyday situations — such as moving around, seeing things at a distance and remembering information.
The researchers assigned a number between 0 and 100 reflecting a person’s relative health score. “Our main findings show that depression impairs health state to a substantially greater degree than the other diseases,” the researchers wrote.
The team used WHO data collected from 60 countries and more than 240,000 people to show on average between 9% and 23% had depression in addition to one or more of four other chronic diseases — asthma, angina, arthritis and diabetes.
Source: The Times Of India
