University of Colorado

Social factors, health perceptions predict depression in heart failure patients

Published in Nursing Home and Elder Business Week, January 23rd, 2005

Living alone, financial difficulties, excessive use of alcohol and poor results on a heart failure questionnaire were associated with the onset of depression among outpatients with heart failure, according to a new study.

"The relationship was so strong that a patient with three out of four of those factors had about a 70% chance of having depression a year later," said Edward P. Havranek, MD, FACC, at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center and Denver Health Medical Center. "Honestly, we were more surprised by what we didn't find than by what we did find. Factors like these predict depression in the general population, but the things that doctors usually use...

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Source: Nursing Home and Elder Business Week (2005-01-23)

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