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The British Journal of Psychiatry (2005) 187: 495-496
© 2005 The Royal College of Psychiatrists

EDITORIALS

Lifetime risk of depression: restricted to a minority or waiting for most?

Gavin Andrews, FRCPsych

School of Psychiatry, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Richie Poulton, PhD

Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Research Unit,University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand

Ingmar Skoog, MD

Department of Psychiatry, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Goteborg, Sweden

Correspondence: Professor Gavin Andrews, School of Psychiatry, UNSW at St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, Australia 2010. E-mail: gavina{at}unsw.edu.au

Declaration of interest None.

Depression remits and recurs, but among what proportion of the population? Retrospective surveys report the lifetime risk to be around 10%. A modelling study and two prospective studies concur that close to half the population can expect one or more episodes of depression in their lifetime.


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