Key result
Under-treated depression in HF strongly predicts worsening symptoms, mortality, and re-hospitalization.
Why the study?
Depression is common and a serious co-morbidity in heart failure, strongly predicting worse outcomes, yet it remains poorly recognized and under-treated.
Depression is a common, serious, and under-treated comorbidity in heart failure that predicts poor outcomes, highlighting the need for regular screening despite the current lack of evidence that its treatment improves HF prognosis.
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Depression screening may aid risk stratification in heart failure; leaves open whether treatment improves outcomes in prospective trials.
Shirley Middlemost (2008) conducted a review in Heart failure and depression. Depression was evaluated. Depression in heart failure is a serious, under-treated comorbidity that strongly predicts worsening symptoms, mortality, and re-hospitalization.
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