"憂鬱症是導致疾病的主因"

美國躁鬱症和憂鬱症學會最近表示重大憂鬱疾病在美國是造成其他疾病的主因。

美加和澳洲的研究人員研究了關於重大憂鬱疾病和精神官能性憂鬱症的資訊，精神官能性憂鬱症是症狀較輕但為慢性形態的憂鬱症。根據《公共科學圖書館醫學》期刊發表的研究結果，他們發現重大憂鬱症是世上第二大死因和第11大全球負擔的因素。若把自殺和缺血性心臟病（憂鬱症導致的）放一起看，在全球負擔之中排行第八。

憂鬱症在中美、中亞和東南亞，疾病成因排行第一，而且主要是影響人們勞動年齡的時期。憂鬱症也更容易影響女性而非男性。疾病比率在阿富汗最高，在日本則最低。

研究人員表示：「我們的研究結果不只強調了憂鬱症是全球健康的優先考量，也強調了設立全球健康目標的時候，理解不同疾病、國家、區域、年齡、性別和年份造成的不同負擔的重要性。」

(Health) Depression Leading Cause of Disability

The Anxiety and Depression Association of America recently stated that major depressive disorder is the leading cause of disability in the US.

Researchers from the US, Canada and Australia studied information regarding major depressive disorder and dysthymia, a milder but chronic form of depression. According to results published in the journal PLOS Medicine, they discovered that major depressive disorder was the second leading cause of death worldwide and the eleventh leading cause of global burden. When combined with suicide and ischemic heart disease (as a result of depression), it ranked as the eighth leading cause of global burden.

Depression as a cause of disability ranked first in Central America and Central and Southeast Asia, and mainly affected people in their working years. It also affects more women than men. Disability rates were highest in Afghanistan and lowest in Japan.

Researchers stated, Our findings not only highlight the fact that depressive disorders are a global health priority but also that it is important to understand variations in burden by disorder, country, region, age, sex and year when setting global health objectives.

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