Late-life depression and the association with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Late-life depression often coincides with chronic somatic diseases and, consequently, with polypharmacy, which may complicate medical treatment.

Objective: To determine the associations between patients diagnosed with late-life depression in primary care and multimorbidity and polypharmacy.

Methods: This cross-sectional observational study was performed using 2012 primary care data.