Depression Following Thrombotic Cardiovascular Events in Elderly Medicare Beneficiaries: Risk of Morbidity and Mortality

Table 2

Recurrent events and mortality.

	Nondepressed		Depressed		Antidepressant users		SSRI users		Other non-SSRI antidepressant users
	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%	#	%
Total elders	6,671	100.0	380	100.0	259	100.0	198	100.0	61	100.0
Recurrent TCEs	4,510	67.6	272	71.6	188	72.6	146	73.7	42	68.9
Mortality	259	3.9	18	4.7	10	3.9	9	4.6	1	1.6
Time to first event (months)	mean/median/std		mean/median/std		mean/median/std		mean/median/std		mean/median/std
Recurrent TCEs	3.3/2.0/3.0		2.6/1.0/2.5		2.6/1.0/2.5		2.5/1.0/2.2		3.1/1.5/3.1
Mortality	6.9/7.0/4.1		6.1/7.0/3.8		8.5/9.0/2.8		8.3/8.0/3.0		10.0/10.0/—

*Measures of central tendency include only those patients with an event.