Healio (2/6, Hornick) reports, “During the COVID-19 pandemic, loneliness, family conflict and difficultly accessing health care raised the risk for first-time and recurrent depression among older adults with asthma, according to a study” of data “of 2,017 older adults…with asthma from the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging.” The “researchers found that 13.5% of patients who did not have prior depression developed it during the pandemic, whereas depression recurred among 48.6% patients with a history of depression in autumn 2020.” The findings were published online in Respiratory Medicine.
Related Links:
— “COVID-19 pandemic linked to depression among older adults with asthma “Isabella Hornick, Healio, February 6, 2023