Author(s)

Yongpin Mu, Yongqing Gao, Wenjie Sun

Department of Clinical Laboratory Centre, The Affiliated People’s Hospital of Inner Mongolia Medical University, Hohhot, China.
School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China.
School of Food Science, Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, Guangzhou, China; School of public Health and Tropic Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, USA.

The topic of blood pressure and depression is an old question. Depression is common in the elderly population (Sun, School- ing, Chan, Ho, & Lam, 2011). Although several epidemiologic studies have assessed the relationship between low blood pres- sure and depressive symptoms in geriatric populations, the results have been inconsistent. Depressive symptoms used to be been considered a risk factor associated with development of hypertension (Hildrum, Romild, & Holmen, 2011).

Blood Pressure; Depressive Symptoms

Mu, Y. , Gao, Y. and Sun, W. (2013) Blood Pressure and Depressive Symptoms. Open Journal of Depression, 2, 43-44. doi: 10.4236/ojd.2013.24009.