BACKGROUND: @entity308 and @entity73 in later-life have great bearings on public health. The two conditions often co-occur and have mutual implications on short-term risk and long-term prognosis. METHOD: A two-phase epidemiologic survey on the prevalence of @entity303 in elders aged 60 and over was conducted in Hong Kong in 2005-2006. In the first phase, 6,100 randomly selected community dwelling elders were assessed with Cantonese version of Mini-Mental State Examination (C-MMSE) and Abbreviated Memory Inventory for Chinese (AMIC). Two thousand and seventy-three subjects were screened positive and invited for second phase cognitive and @entity146 assessment. 35.5% of screen-positive subjects participated in Phase 2 assessment conducted by psychiatrists for diagnosis of @entity303 . Severity of @entity303 was determined using Clinical @entity303 Rating Scale (CDR). Cornell Scale for @entity308 in @entity303 (CSDD) and a structured bedside cognitive battery were also administered to each subject. RESULTS: 1.7% of subjects with CDR 0.5 and 5.9% of subjects with @entity7958 had clinically significant @entity308 (>or= 8 on CSDD). Score on CSDD correlated positively with duration of @entity73 , scores on CIRS and CMMSE in linear regression model. In a logistic regression model, male gender, duration of @entity73 , CIRS and CMMSE was associated with increased risk for clinically significant @entity308 . CONCLUSIONS: In our sample, milder forms of @entity73 were associated with increased risk for @entity308 in the presence of other risk factors such as male gender, higher @entity73 .

Prevalence of clinically significant XXXX in an epidemiologic sample of community-dwelling elders with milder forms of @entity73 in Hong Kong SAR.

@entity308 :: ('MESH:D003866', 'Disease') :: ['Depression', 'depressive symptoms', 'depression'] @entity146 :: ('MESH:D001523', 'Disease') :: ['psychiatric'] @entity303 :: ('MESH:D003704', 'Disease') :: ['Dementia', 'dementia'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['cognitive impairment', 'physical illness burden and longer duration of cognitive symptoms', 'cognitive symptoms'] @entity7958 :: ('1038', 'Gene') :: ['CDR 1']
@entity308 :: (MESH:D003866,Disease) :: ['depressive symptoms']
