Healio Cardiology Today (8/9, Buzby) reported, “Among adolescents and adults with congenital heart disease, mental illness is a significantly more prevalent comorbidity in those who experienced at least two cardiac procedures during a three-year period or had greater lesion complexity than in others,” researchers found after analyzing “the data of 2,192 adolescents aged 11 to 17 years (42% girls), and 6,924 adults aged 18 to 64 years (53% women), with congenital heart disease between 2011 and 2013.” The findings were published in the Aug. 15 issue of the American Journal of Cardiology.
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— “Mental illness odds elevated in congenital heart disease, “Scott Buzby, Healio Cardiology Today, August 09, 2019