Integrating Mental Health Into Cardiovascular Care: Insight From the 2025 European Society of Cardiology Clinical Consensus Statement

“Well, it is actually a multi-directional relationship, and it starts before disease. But I would say the urgency is among the patients with established cardiovascular disease – patients with heart failure, ischaemic heart disease and others. One out of three of these at least have depression or anxiety. Whether this is in the hospital, in specific units or outpatient offices will have to be decided by the team.”

“Clinical cardiovascular practice often overlooks the impact of mental health and the importance of its inclusion in care. We need to see cardiovascular health professionals developing collaborations with mental health professionals in Psycho-Cardio Teams to help identify early mental health conditions in our patients and improve care and support for patients and their caregivers.”

“Historically, cardiologists haven't paid too much attention to psychiatric symptoms, such as anxiety or depressive mood, and psychiatrists haven't spent much time looking for cardiovascular risk factors in their patients.”