Depression affects millions of people worldwide, yet many individuals remain unaware of the complex web of risk factors that can increase their vulnerability to this serious mental health condition.

Skipping meals or eating at irregular times of the day could worsen mental health, according to a new study. View on euronews ...

Depression is a highly common mental health condition that affects millions of people worldwide. Medical professionals have ...

Researchers say they have identified new genetic risk factors for depression across all major global populations for the first time, thus allowing scientists to predict the risk of depression ...

Nursing home workers should consider depression as a risk factor for resident falls, authors of a new study say. Depression is already reported as an independent risk factor for falls. In fact, it can ...

A history of depression was associated with a 14% higher risk for incident heart failure (HF) than no history of depression in a new study, even after adjusting for known HF risk factors and ...

Question: An article I read in a popular magazine compared risk factors for depression to those for other diseases. I understand how smoking causes lung cancer, but not how losing my job means I was ...

Adding measures of anxiety and depression to the American Heart Association’s Predicting Risk of Cardiovascular Disease Events (PREVENT) model may have little additional effect on predicting the risk ...

For years, researchers have been building an ever-longer list of dementia risk factors: poor diet, lack of exercise, social isolation, air pollution, untreated hearing loss, diabetes, high blood ...

New genetic risk factors for depression have been identified across all major global populations for the first time, allowing scientists to predict risk of depression regardless of ethnicity. The ...