Depressive symptoms are prominent in elderly hospitalized patients with heart failure and have been associated with decreased functional status, increased hospital readmissions and greater mortality. However, little is known about the characteristics of heart failure patients prone to depression and their treatment. […]
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Depression and reduced survival among patients with heart failure
In order to evaluate the association of long-term mortality with antidepressant use and severity of depression, assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), O’Connor and colleagues studied 1,006 patients, aged 18 years or older who were admitted to hospital with clinical (NYHA ≥ II) and/or echocardiographic evidence of systolic heart failure (left ventricular ejection fraction […]