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Depression among the elderly population in Sohag governorate

Hanan Y. Aly, Ahmed F. Hamed and Nesreen A. Mohammed
Saudi Medical Journal February 2018, 39 (2) 185-190; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.2.21353
Hanan Y. Aly
From the Neuropsychiatric Department (Aly), and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Hamed, Mohammed), Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
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Ahmed F. Hamed
From the Neuropsychiatric Department (Aly), and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Hamed, Mohammed), Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
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Nesreen A. Mohammed
From the Neuropsychiatric Department (Aly), and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Hamed, Mohammed), Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
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vol. 39 no. 2 185-190
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.2.21353
PubMed 
29436568

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Saudi Medical Journal
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1658-3175
History 
  • Received October 22, 2017
  • Accepted December 18, 2017
  • Published online February 1, 2018.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Hanan Y. Aly, MSc, MD,
  2. Ahmed F. Hamed, MSc, MD and
  3. Nesreen A. Mohammed, MSc, MD⇑
  1. From the Neuropsychiatric Department (Aly), and Department of Public Health and Community Medicine (Hamed, Mohammed), Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Dr. Nesreen A. Mohammed, Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt. E-mail: nesreenhammad180{at}yahoo.com ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-8051-1633
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