What is it about?
Increasing latitude is associated with increasing depression prevalence in Canada. Previous Canadian and international studies have failed to identify this latitude gradient, probably because they had much smaller sample sizes.
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Why is it important?
This gradient in prevalence has implications for planning services and may hold clues to the etiology of depression.
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This page is a summary of: Major Depression Prevalence Increases with Latitude in Canada, The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, October 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0706743716673323.
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