Prognosis

The risk of depression is increased with increasing age, and reduced with an active rehabilitation program. ^b

Why?

Increasing age and no active rehabilitation increase the risk of depression

Patient	Prognostic Factor	Outcome	CER	OR (95% CI)	NNF+ (95% CI)
stroke b	aged > 70 independent	depression at 12 months	47%	1.64 (1.02 to 2.62)	8 (4 to 200)
	active rehabilitation program independent		55%	0.55 (0.34 to 0.88)	-7 (-31 to -4)