depression

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A 2024 analysis found that about 45% of dementia cases are potentially preventable based on lowering risk factors like hearing loss, depression, and high cholesterol.

From Barron's • May 21, 2026

For women, that could include greater attention to managing depression, increasing physical activity, and improving cardiovascular health, especially untreated hypertension.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

“My patients are not suffering from depression; they’re suffering from oppression,” Kidia writes in the book, detailing how many people’s conditions are dependent on external circumstances, including financial instability.

From Salon • May 18, 2026

Levi emerged from the translation, he wrote, “as if from an illness,” and Ms. Hruska suggests that the depression he sank into may have contributed to his death.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

Nevertheless, the Populist movement initially enjoyed remarkable success in the South, fueled by a wave of discontent aroused by the severe agrarian depression of the 1880s and 1890s.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander