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Table 3 Prevalence (%) of register-based diagnosis of depression and antidepressant use in men and women stratified by having or not a SNAC-K-based diagnosis of depression

From: Is the diagnosis and treatment of depression gender-biased? Evidence from a population-based aging cohort in Sweden

 

Register-based diagnosis of depression

 

Antidepressant use

 

No

Yes

p value

No

Yes

p value

Not diagnosed as depressed according to SNAC-K

Men

95.4

4.6

0.001

95.2

4.8

0.000

Women

92.2

7.8

91.6

8.4

Diagnosed as depressed according to SNAC-K

Men

65.3

34.7

0.294

83.7

16.3

0.022

Women

56.3

43.8

65.6

34.4