Depression and Heart Disease Depression often occurs with heart disease. For help with depression related to coronary issues, please seek help. From Depressive Symptoms, Cardiovascular Disease Severity, and Functional Status in Older Adults With Coronary Heart Disease: The Heart and Soul Study by Nancy L. Sin, PhD, Kristine Yaffe, MD,…
Depression and Anxiety with Physical Illness Depression and anxiety can occur with various physical illnesses, including endocrine issues, cancer, AIDS, and heart attack. Both the mind and the body need to be treated. If you need emotional help, please call a health psychologist. Depressed? Anxious? It Could Be An Early…
According to the American Heart Association, 22 percent of heart attack patients develop some degree of depression. Symptoms of depression like fatigue and feelings of worthlessness can cause people to ignore their treatment and engage in unhealthy behaviors such as overeating or refusing to take medications. Studies show treating depression…
Having a heart attack or being diagnosed with heart disease can be a life-changing event. It can be challenging emotionally to make necessary lifestyle changes to help live a healthy life. Altering eating habits, managing stress and following the treatment plan your health provider prescribes all at once can be…
New findings support the existence of an association between depression and a range of subtypes of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. The associations between anxiety and coronary heart disease are robust and there is emerging evidence of associations of anxiety with stroke and diabetes. (Kate M. Scott, Curr Opin Psychiatry….
A study conducted by investigators at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, showed that more than 25% of women aged 55 years and younger who underwent coronary angiography and who were depressed were much more likely to die of heart disease, suffer a myocardial infarction (MI), or require revascularization. Depressive symptoms…
