Depression (Disease Associations)

Depression After Heart Attack Raises Risk for Women and Men

Published in Women's Health Weekly, February 1st, 1999

Women are twice as likely as men to be depressed in the hospital after having an acute heart attack, but this does not translate into a higher death rate for women, new research shows.

This was true even though depression after a heart attack is a key risk factor for death from cardiac causes within a year after discharge for both women and men.

When Nancy Frasure-Smith, PhD, from McGill University, and her colleagues at the Montreal Heart Institute studied 896 heart attack patients, they found that about half of the 283 women and one-fourth of the men experienced at least mild to moderate symptoms of depression. However, the dramatically higher...

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