In this study of elderly community residents aged 65 and over, no evidence emerged that levels of anxiety associated with case levels of depressive illness affected outcome when measured crudely in terms of death, being well (having no significant psychiatric symptoms), and being psychiatrically ill three years later. Only a tiny proportion of the subjects appeared to receive antidepressant medication during this time.

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