Authors: de Graaf, R., Radovanovic, M., van Laar, Fairman, B., Degenhardt, L., Aguilar-Gaxiola, S., Bruffaerts, De Girolamo, G., Fayyad, J., Gureje, O., Haro, J.M., Huang, Y.Q., Kostychenko, Lepine, J.P., Matschinger, H., Mora, M.E.M., Neumark, Y., Ormel, Posada-Villa, Stein, D.J., Tachimori, Wells, J.E., Anthony, J.C.
Venue: American Journal of Epidemiology
Type: Publication
Abstract: Early-onset cannabis use is widespread in many countries and might cause later onset of depression. Sound epidemiologic data across countries are missing. The authors estimated the suspected causal association that links early-onset (age <17 years) cannabis use with later-onset (age >= 17 years) risk of a depression spell, using data on 85,088 subjects from 17 countries participating in the population-based World Health Organization World Mental Health Survey Initiative (2001-2005). In all surveys, multistage household probability samples...
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Topics: 
Demography
Psychiatry
Gerontology
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