Key result
Depression predicts recurrent CHD and mortality, but routine screening shows inconclusive outcome benefits.
Depression is a significant risk marker for recurrent acute coronary syndrome and death in patients with coronary heart disease.
Depression remains a key prognostic marker in CHD; leaves open whether routine screening improves cardiac outcomes.
There are exciting findings in the field of depression and coronary heart disease. Whether diagnosed or simply self-reported, depression continues to mark very high risk for a recurrent acute coronary syndrome or for death in patients with coronary heart disease. Many intriguing mechanisms have been posited to be implicated in the association between depression and heart disease, and randomized controlled trials of depression treatment are beginning to delineate the types of depression management strategies that may benefit the many coronary heart disease patients with depression.
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Karina W. Davidson (2012) conducted a review in Coronary Heart Disease and Depression. Depression was evaluated.
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