0 any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a particular disease:
It's her feeling that the recent outbreaks of violence are a symptom of the dissatisfaction that is currently affecting our society.
He's been HIV-positive for six years, but just recently he's started to develop the symptoms of AIDS.
He's complaining of all the usual flu symptoms - a high temperature, headache, and so on.
1 any feeling of illness or physical or mental change that is caused by a disease:
Previous depressive and anxiety symptoms were measured 6 months earlier.
One may, therefore, argue that the threshold should be set lower in adults, who might experience impairment at fewer symptoms.
Early vegetative symptoms, however, may also contribute to the high rates of depression seen later in the course of immune activation.
Lower intake of medication might be expected to cause more severe psychotic symptoms.
However, there is no statistical remedy for failure to recall episodes or symptoms.
We have much less information about whether the patients in the trials also had evidence of active psychotic phenomena in addition to any depressive symptoms.
However, despite the narrow time gap between assessments, it is possible that there was fluctuation in depressive symptoms between assessments.
Major depression in communitydwelling middle-aged and older adults : prevalence and 2and 4-year follow-up symptoms.
