Depression and Stable Angina Linked

Healio (10/4, Quaile) reports, “Depression appears to increase the risk for all-cause mortality and” myocardial infarction (MI) “in patients with stable angina,” researchers found after retrospectively analyzing “a cohort of 22,917 patients aged at least 20 years from Ontario, Canada, newly diagnosed with stable angina based on obstructive” coronary artery disease “found on angiogram, to determine predictors of developing depression.”

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— “Depression linked to adverse outcomes in patients with stable angina,” Healio, October 4, 2016.

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