Depression and Heart Disease
The Carlat Psychiatry Report, Volume 7, Number 7&8, July 2009
https://www.thecarlatreport.com/newsletter-issue/tcprv7n7-8/
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Heidi W. Ashih, MD, PhD
Having a heart attack is depressing. Systematic reviews have found that depression increases the risk of future development of heart disease by 64% (Wulsin et al., Psychsom Med 2003;65: 201-210). But what do these facts mean in the terms of treatment?
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Heidi W. Ashih, MD
Psychiatry Resident, Cambridge Health Alliance, Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School
Dr. Ashih reports no financial relationships with any commercial companies related to this article