Life events and the dexamethasone suppression test in affective illness.

Forty patients with primary endogenous major depression were followed up during a 12-month period after recovery, on maintenance therapy. Neither the results of the DST, nor the life events reported could predict the occurrence of affective relapses although bereavement life events tended to be observed more frequently in patients relapsing, regardless of the type of antidepressant treatment.