Clinical implications of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease.(Special Populations in Depression)

From: Internal Medicine News | Date: June 15, 2008| Author: | Copyright information

Depression--both major depressive disorder (MDD) and depressive symptoms--increases mortality in patients following myocardial infarction (MI) and also is a predictor of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the general population free of any evidence of medical illness (1-4) Furthermore, depression is a painful and persistent condition, and if left untreated in patients who have overt coronary disease, depression will impair the patient's adherence to the advice and treatment recommendations by the patient's team of health care professionals, further impairing the patient's ...

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