Depression is a common comorbidity in heart failure that worsens prognosis, but current evidence does not support withholding beta-blockers or guarantee that depression treatment improves cardiac outcomes.
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Depression identifies higher-risk heart failure patients; leaves open whether treatment improves cardiac outcomes.
Marc A. Silver (2010) studied this question.
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