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Depression and cardiovascular disease: a clinical review

Overview of attention for article published in European Heart Journal, November 2013
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Title
Depression and cardiovascular disease: a clinical review
Published in
European Heart Journal, November 2013
DOI 10.1093/eurheartj/eht462
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Authors

David L. Hare, Samia R. Toukhsati, Peter Johansson, Tiny Jaarsma

Abstract

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) and depression are common. Patients with CVD have more depression than the general population. Persons with depression are more likely to eventually develop CVD and also have a higher mortality rate than the general population. Patients with CVD, who are also depressed, have a worse outcome than those patients who are not depressed. There is a graded relationship: the more severe the depression, the higher the subsequent risk of mortality and other cardiovascular events. It is possible that depression is only a marker for more severe CVD which so far cannot be detected using our currently available investigations. However, given the increased prevalence of depression in patients with CVD, a causal relationship with either CVD causing more depression or depression causing more CVD and a worse prognosis for CVD is probable. There are many possible pathogenetic mechanisms that have been described, which are plausible and that might well be important. However, whether or not there is a causal relationship, depression is the main driver of quality of life and requires prevention, detection, and management in its own right. Depression after an acute cardiac event is commonly an adjustment disorder than can improve spontaneously with comprehensive cardiac management. Additional management strategies for depressed cardiac patients include cardiac rehabilitation and exercise programmes, general support, cognitive behavioural therapy, antidepressant medication, combined approaches, and probably disease management programmes.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 4 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Indonesia 1 <1%
Austria 1 <1%
Unknown 921 99%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 128 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 122 13%
Student > Bachelor 117 13%
Researcher 78 8%
Student > Postgraduate 67 7%
Other 158 17%
Unknown 262 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 255 27%
Psychology 120 13%
Nursing and Health Professions 73 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 27 3%
Neuroscience 24 3%
Other 133 14%
Unknown 300 32%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 199. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 27 May 2023.
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#191,549
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#332
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#1,686
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#4
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