Mental Health Assessment of Cancer Patients: Prevalence and Predictive Factors of Depression and Anxiety.

Background: Patients with oncological diseases often have mental disorders in the form of comorbidity. The aim of this study was to research the association of cancer with the presence of symptoms of depression and anxiety in primary health care patients.

Methods: This prospective observational study done in 2020 included adult users of health care at the Health Center Trstenik, Central Serbia, aged 19 and over, both sexes, with a diagnosis of oncological disease.

Erratum to "Suffering from Cerebral Small Vessel Disease with and without Metabolic Syndrome".

[This corrects the article on p. 479 in vol. 14, PMID: 31231684.

Suffering from Cerebral Small Vessel Disease with and without Metabolic Syndrome.

Background: Cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD) and metabolic syndrome were separately associated with cognitive impairment and depression. However, whether metabolic syndrome adds to cognitive impairment and depression in patients who already have CSVD remained unanswered.

Objective: The aim of our study was to investigate the association of metabolic syndrome with cognitive impairment and depression in patients with CSVD who have lacunar lesions or white matter hyperintensities.