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Heart disease and depression: don't ignore the relationship
David Eric Kemp1, Shishuka Malhotra, Kathleen N Franco
1Department of Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA.
Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
|October 2, 2003
Abstract:
Evidence is mounting that depression is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease and portends a worse outcome in cardiac patients. Depression can be easily diagnosed and safely treated in cardiac patients, but it is undertreated.