TY  - JOUR
T1  - Screening for depression: This is the heart of the matter
AU  - Grissom GR, Phillips RA
Y1  - 2005/06/13
N1  - 10.1001/archinte.165.11.1214
JO  - Archives of Internal Medicine
SP  - 1214
EP  - 1215
VL  - 165
IS  - 11
N2  - 
Despite Hippocrates’ advice, few clinicians and researchers have suspected that psychological problems may be among the most important modifiable risk factors for medical morbidity and mortality. There is growing evidence that this could be the case. Many cardiac patients (30%-45%) experience clinically important depressive symptoms.1 The impact of depression on cardiac outcomes is at least as important as a history of myocardial infarction and left ventricular dysfunction.2 Depression is related to onset of cardiac disease; it is associated with higher medical costs; and it reduces patients’ quality of life and compliance with treatment.3- 5 The cardiovascular prognosis is linked to the severity of depressive symptoms6: risk increases along with symptom severity whether or not the patient meets diagnostic criteria for a depressive disorder.7

SN  - 0003-9926
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archinte.165.11.1214
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archinte.165.11.1214
ER  -