medical illness associated with late life depression

Etiology

• CNS disease
  • neurodegenerative disease
  • cerebrovascular disease
• cardiovascular disease
  • coronary artery disease
  • congestive heart failure
• endocrine disease
  • diabetes mellitus
  • thyroid disease
  • Cushing's disease
• cancer
  • pancreatic cancer
  • lung cancer
  • endocrine tumors
• immunologic disease
  • systemic lupus erythematosus
  • rheumatoid arthritis
• medications