Longitudinal trajectories of somatic and cognitive-affective depressive symptoms influence stroke risk across different populations: Three prospective cohort studies

Table 2 Depressive symptom trajectory information determined from the four waves of follow-up data in three prospective cohort studies

Type	Term	CHARLS	ELSA	HRS
Overall		7990	5642	12260
Depressive_symptom_trajectory	Consistently low	1324	3394	2405
Depressive_symptom_trajectory	Consistently high	1649	260	7037
Depressive_symptom_trajectory	Decreasing	321	100	36
Depressive_symptom_trajectory	Fluctuating	4361	1751	2688
Depressive_symptom_trajectory	Increasing	335	137	94
Somatic_trajectory	Consistently low	2600	3418	548
Somatic_trajectory	Consistently high	705	251	7180
Somatic_trajectory	Decreasing	0	47	106
Somatic_trajectory	Fluctuating	4685	1838	4256
Somatic_trajectory	Increasing	0	88	167
Cognitive_affective_trajectory	Consistently low	1634	3001	10595
Cognitive_affective_trajectory	Consistently high	1144	2177	13
Cognitive_affective_trajectory	Decreasing	238	93	217
Cognitive_affective_trajectory	Fluctuating	4734	340	1422
Cognitive_affective_trajectory	Increasing	240	31	13

CHARLS: China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study; ELSA: English Longitudinal Study of Ageing; HRS: Health and Retirement Study.