Key result
Depression strongly links to higher CVD incidence and mortality while CVD often induces depression.
Why the study?
Modifiable risk factors like depression are gaining greater importance in managing the cardiovascular epidemic given the global burden of CVD and paucity of new therapeutic innovations.
Depression is a significant, modifiable risk factor that has a strong bidirectional relationship with cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality.
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Supports integrated mental health screening in CVD care; leaves causal effects and intervention benefits open for RCTs.
Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are the leading cause of global morbidity and mortality. Besides imparting enormous human suffering and enhancing premature mortality, they also inflict huge direct and indirect financial costs on the worldwide society. With the easier availability of affordable therapeutics globally, and the relatively paucity of newer innovations, modifiable risk factors are gaining greater importance in the management of this cardiovascular epidemic. Depression is a modifiable risk factor. It is consistently and strongly associated with a higher risk of CVD incidence and mortality. CVD on the other hand, often induces the development of depression. This paper reviews the effects of depression on cardiovascular diseases.
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Shashi K. Agarwal (2021) conducted a review in Depression and Cardiovascular Diseases. Depression was evaluated. Depression is consistently and strongly associated with a higher risk of cardiovascular disease incidence and mortality, while cardiovascular disease often induces the development of depression.
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