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Are depression and anxiety correlated with cardiac parameters in patients receiving an ICD?
Are depression and anxiety correlated with cardiac parameters in patients receiving an ICD?
Psychological distress (depression and anxiety) is correlated with cardiac parameters in patients receiving an ICD, suggesting a biological link.
A substantial part of patients receiving an ICD have symptoms of depression and anxiety at time of ICD implantation. Depression and anxiety were correlated with multiple cardiac parameters, suggesting a possible biological links between psychological distress and cardiac disease in ICD patients.
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Lingen et al. (2023) studied this question.
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