In older adults with stable coronary heart disease, depressive symptoms and lower exercise capacity are stronger predictors of 5-year functional decline than traditional measures of cardiovascular disease severity such as LVEF and angina.
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May inform functional risk stratification beyond LVEF in older stable CHD; hypothesis-generating and needs prospective validation.
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