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Article: Early Violence, Later Depression. (Clinical Capsules).(adult women who were abused as children more prone to major depressive disorders)
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- Clinical Psychiatry News
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- November 1, 2001
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Women who were victimized in child-hood are more liely to develop major depressive disorder as adults said Lauren A. Wise of Harvard Medical School, Boston, and her colleagues. The researchers conducted a population-based, case-control study of premenopausal women aged 36-45 years (Lancet 358[9285]:881-87, 2001). They found that 34% of 113 women who were abused as children developed major depressive disorder, compared with 18% of 6 women ...