They adjusted the findings to eliminate the influence of depression, smoking, age, body mass index, exposure to combat and other variables.
To assess the influence of depression severity on risk of transformation, we ran two models using PHQ-9-based measures of depression severity as predictors of transformation.
But the numbers of patients in each group were relatively small, so we cannot draw a definite conclusion with regards to the influence of depression and anxiety.
Though there is a large literature demonstrating that migraine and depression are comorbid and bidirectionally linked [10, 12, 20, 21], the influence of depression on the clinical course of migraine has rarely been investigated.
Pain "catastrophizing," or characterizations of pain as awful, horrible and unbearable, was related to increased activation in the attentional, affective and motor domains, independently of the influence of depression [19].
Along these lines, the present results are not likely due to the influence of depression or other forms of negative affect that co-occur with worry [4], [22], [33], [56] [60].
The most important is probably the influence of depression on appetite and food intake.
The Sobel test [ 24] determined whether pain carried the influence of depression to QoL.
Finally, we intended to analyze the coexisting influence of depression on personality traits in the two clinical groups.
Beyond the problem of recognizing depression, the influence of depression on the wish to die in terminally ill patients can be underappreciated.
