Depression care trajectories and associations with subsequent depressive episode: a registry-based cohort study (The Norwegian GP-DEP study)

Table 1 The study population (N = 9 027), by subsequent depressive episode, distributed by gender, age, education, and comorbidity

	Study population		Subsequent depressive episode
			No, n = 6 522		Yes, n = 2 505
	n	%	n	%	n	%
Gender
Women	5 768	63.9	4 144	63.5	1 624	64.8
Men	3 259	36.1	2 378	36.5	881	35.2
Age, years
18–29	1 732	19.2	1 302	20.0	430	17.2
30–39	2 056	22.8	1 459	22.4	597	23.8
40–49	2 247	24.9	1 588	24.3	659	26.3
50–59	1 673	18.5	1 182	18.1	491	19.6
60–69	884	9.8	672	10.3	212	8.5
70 +	435	4.8	319	4.9	116	4.6
Educational level^a
Low	3 021	33.9	2 204	34.2	817	33.1
Medium	3 650	41.0	2 623	40.8	1 027	41.5
High	2 238	25.1	1 609	25.0	629	25.4
Missing			86		32
Comorbidity
0	3 580	39.7	2 590	39.7	990	39.5
1–2	4 593	50.9	3 303	50.6	1 290	51.5
3 +	854	9.4	629	9.7	225	9.0

^aEducational level: Low = primary school (grades 1–7) and lower secondary school (grades 8–10), or less; Medium = upper-secondary school; High = university and higher education

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