Key result
Elderly patients with heart failure or heart failure-like symptoms exhibited significantly higher degrees of depression than a reference group, a difference largely explained by physical fatigue.
Why the study?
Is depression more prevalent among elderly patients with heart failure or heart failure-like symptoms compared to a reference group in primary care?
Case-Control (n=148)
No
Is depression more prevalent among elderly patients with heart failure or heart failure-like symptoms compared to a reference group in primary care?
Depression is more prevalent in elderly patients with HF symptoms regardless of objective cardiac function, but this association is largely explained by physical fatigue.
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Depression assessment may warrant consideration in elderly HF patients; hypothesis-generating for fatigue mediation, needing prospective confirmation.
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Hägglund et al. (2008) conducted a case-control in Heart failure and depression (n=148). Heart failure or heart failure-like symptoms vs. Reference group without such symptoms was evaluated on Degrees of depression. Elderly patients with heart failure or heart failure-like symptoms exhibited significantly higher degrees of depression than a reference group, a difference largely explained by physical fatigue.
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