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Does depression increase the risk of the initial presentation of cardiac, cerebrovascular, and peripheral arterial diseases in healthy women and men?
Does depression increase the risk of the initial presentation of cardiac, cerebrovascular, and peripheral arterial diseases in healthy women and men?
Depression is a broad, non-specific risk factor for the initial presentation of multiple cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and peripheral arterial diseases.
Supports depression screening in primary CVD prevention; leaves open whether treatment modifies incident vascular disease risk.
Depression was prospectively associated with cardiac, cerebrovascular, and peripheral diseases, with no evidence of disease specificity. Further research is needed in understanding the specific pathophysiology of heart and vascular disease triggered by depression in healthy populations.
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Daskalopoulou et al. (2016) studied this question.
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