Patients with CHF and depression have greater risk of mortality and morbidity than patients without depression [4] (multiple letters)

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 919-920

  Jiang, Wei ^a   Hasselblad, Vic ^a   Krishnan, Ranga R ^a   O'Connor, Christopher M ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CREATININE CLEARANCE; DEPRESSION; EDUCATION; ELDERLY CARE; GENDER; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE EJECTION FRACTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RACE; RATING SCALE; STANDARDIZATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0037028867     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0735-1097(02)01694-7     Document Type: Letter

References (4)

1. V. Vaccarino S.V. Kasl J. Abramson H.M. Krumholz Depressive symptoms and risk of functional decline and death in patients with heart failure J Am Coll Cardiol 38 2001 199 205
2. W. Jiang K.R. Krishnan J.R. Alexander E.J. Christopher O. Kuchibhalt C.M. ’Connor Prevalence of depression and its relationship with mortality/morbidity in patients with heart failure (abstr) Annual Meeting of the American Psychiatric Association NR170 1999 109
3. C.M. O’Connor W. Jiang J. Alexander Depression in heart failure clinical characteristics and impact on outcomes (abstr) J Am Coll Cardiol 35 2000 178A
4. W. Jiang J. Alexander E. Christopher Relationship of depression to increased risk of mortality and rehospitalization in patients with congestive heart failure Arch Intern Med 161 2001 1849 1856