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Heart disease and depression: Don't ignore the relationship

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 2003 September;70(9):745-746, 749-750, 752-754, 757-758, 760-761
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ABSTRACTEvidence is mounting that depression is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease and portends a worse outcome in cardiac patients. Depression can be easily diagnosed and safely treated in cardiac patients, but it is undertreated.