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Depression and coronary heart disease: association and implications for treatment.

Publication ,  Journal Article
Blumenthal, JA
Published in: Cleve Clin J Med
March 2008

Growing evidence indicates that depression is an important primary and secondary risk factor for coronary heart disease (CHD). Depression is quite common among patients with CHD: prevalence estimates are 14% or higher, and an additional 20% of patients have subclinical or minor depression. This review summarizes evidence that depression is a risk factor for cardiac events in patients with established CHD, suggests potential mechanisms underlying the relationship between depression and adverse cardiac outcomes, and provides evidence for the efficacy of exercise in improving both depression and clinical outcomes in depressed patients with CHD.

Duke Scholars

Published In

Cleve Clin J Med

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ISSN

0891-1150

Publication Date

March 2008

Volume

75 Suppl 2

Start / End Page

S48 / S53

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Risk Factors
  • Humans
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Exercise Therapy
  • Exercise
  • Depression
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
 

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Blumenthal, J. A. (2008). Depression and coronary heart disease: association and implications for treatment. Cleve Clin J Med, 75 Suppl 2, S48–S53. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.75.suppl_2.s48
Blumenthal, James A. “Depression and coronary heart disease: association and implications for treatment.Cleve Clin J Med 75 Suppl 2 (March 2008): S48–53. https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.75.suppl_2.s48.
Blumenthal JA. Depression and coronary heart disease: association and implications for treatment. Cleve Clin J Med. 2008 Mar;75 Suppl 2:S48–53.
Blumenthal, James A. “Depression and coronary heart disease: association and implications for treatment.Cleve Clin J Med, vol. 75 Suppl 2, Mar. 2008, pp. S48–53. Pubmed, doi:10.3949/ccjm.75.suppl_2.s48.
Blumenthal JA. Depression and coronary heart disease: association and implications for treatment. Cleve Clin J Med. 2008 Mar;75 Suppl 2:S48–S53.

Published In

Cleve Clin J Med

DOI

ISSN

0891-1150

Publication Date

March 2008

Volume

75 Suppl 2

Start / End Page

S48 / S53

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • United States
  • Risk Factors
  • Humans
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Exercise Therapy
  • Exercise
  • Depression
  • Coronary Artery Disease
  • Clinical Trials as Topic
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences