{"id":900,"date":"2010-01-20T17:55:46","date_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nchspressroom.wordpress.com\/?p=900"},"modified":"2010-01-20T17:55:46","modified_gmt":"2010-01-20T21:55:46","slug":"depression-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2010\/01\/20\/900\/","title":{"rendered":"Depression in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Depression is a common and debilitating illness. According to the American Psychiatric Association, depression is characterized by changes in mood, self-attitude, cognitive functioning, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Here&#8217;s some facts about depression in the U.S. you may not know:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">More than 1 in 20 Americans age 12 and over have depression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">More than 1 in 7 poor Americans have depression.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">Rates of depression were higher in 40-59 year olds, women, and non-Hispanic black persons than in other demographic groups (see the chart below).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/db07_fig1.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-901\" title=\"Percentage of persons 12 years of age and over with depression, United States, 2005-2006\" src=\"http:\/\/nchspressroom.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/01\/db07_fig1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"440\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana\">For more information, please visit the NCHS\u00a0FastStats page on depression at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/depression.htm\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/fastats\/depression.htm<\/a>, or visit <a title=\"Link to Depression Data Brief\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db07.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db07.pdf<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression is a common and debilitating illness. According to the American Psychiatric Association, depression is characterized by changes in mood, self-attitude, cognitive functioning, sleep, appetite, and energy level. Here&#8217;s some facts about depression in the U.S. you may not know: More than 1 in 20 Americans age 12 and over have depression. More than 1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":195,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59415,62268,14356,63685,53746],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/195"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}