Disease Associations
Depression A Risk Factor For Heart Attack In Hypertensive Patients, For Atherosclerosis In Women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, April 5th, 2001
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the United States, and depression is the most prevalent psychological disorder.
Hillel W. Cohen, DrPH, and associates of the Department of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, New York, report that hypertensive patients with a history of depression are more than twice as likely to have a heart attack or other coronary event than non-depressed people with high blood pressure.
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