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Research from J.J. Arbelaez and co-researchers provides new data on depression

Published in Patient Care Law Weekly, January 6th, 2008

In this recently published article, scientists in the United States conducted a study "To investigate the mediator role of inflammation in any relationship between depressive symptoms and ischemic stroke. Longitudinal prospective study."

"Review of medical records, death certificates, and the Medicare healthcare utilization database for hospitalizations. Total of 5,525 elderly men and women aged 65 and older who were prospectively followed from 1989 to 2000 as participants in the Cardiovascular Health Study. Depression symptom scores, inflammatory markers. Greater depressive symptoms were associated with risk of ischemic stroke (unadjusted hazard ratio (HR)=1.32, 95%...

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