Saturday, December 08, 2007

Depression Linked To Death Following Heart Attack

Depression triples the risk of death following a heart attack, even when accounting for other heart attack risk factors, according to research presented today at the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP) annual meeting, which showed that among 360 depressed, post myocardial infarction patients followed for more than six years, those who did not recover from their depression in the first six months were more than twice as likely to die.

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Posted by Tom Beckman on 12/08 at 01:33 PM
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