Heartache and heartbreak-the link between depression and cardiovascular disease

Nature Reviews Cardiology

Volumn 9, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 526-539

  Nemeroff, Charles B ^a   Goldschmidt Clermont, Pascal J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CITALOPRAM; ENDOTHELIN 1; FLUOXETINE; INTERLEUKIN 6; MIRTAZAPINE; PADGEM PROTEIN; PLACEBO; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE; TETRACYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; VON WILLEBRAND FACTOR;

BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BLOOD CLOTTING; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENDOTHELIAL DYSFUNCTION; ENDOTHELIAL PROGENITOR CELL; EPIGENETICS; GENETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEREDITY; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SUBCLINICAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; SYSTOLIC HYPERTENSION; THROMBOCYTE ACTIVATION; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; DEPRESSION; ENDOTHELIUM, VASCULAR; EPIGENOMICS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; LIFE STYLE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84865527258     PISSN: 17595002     EISSN: 17595010     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrcardio.2012.91     Document Type: Review

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