[Effectiveness of psychopharmacotherapy of late hypochondriac depression]

Hypochondriac depression is typical for elderly people and is difficult to treat. An aim of the study was to estimate the effect of hypochondriac symptoms on the effectiveness of psychopharmacotherapy of late depression. It has been shown that psychopharmacotherapy of late depression with hypochondriac symptoms is significantly less effective than that of depression without such symptoms. Some predictors of psychopharmacotherapy effectiveness were identified. Many prognostically significant factors were consistent with those found earlier for late depression. The nosological attribution of depression without hypochondria to bipolar affective disorder may explain better effectiveness of its psychopharmacotherapy.