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| The significance of depression in older patients after myocardial infarction | | Author(s) | Jeanine Romanelli, James A Fauerbach, David E Bush |
| Journal title | Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 50, no 5, May 2002 |
| Pages | pp 817-822 |
| Keywords | Depression ; Heart disease ; In-patients ; Death ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | Depression is prevalent after an acute myocardial infarction (MI) in patients aged 85+. In this US study of 284 patients admitted to hospital with an acute MI, 153 were aged 65+; 101 completed a 4-month follow-up interview. Patients were interviewed 3-5 days post-MI to evaluate for presence of depression symptoms (a score of 10 or more on the Beck Depression Inventory), and for the presence of mood disorder. Older patients with depression were more likely to die in the first 4 months or have had a previous MI than older patients without depression. Older post-MI patients with depression also had more comorbidities than those without depression, and have almost four times the risk of dying within the first 4 months after discharge. The authors' data suggest that sicker patients who are older and depressed may less often be prescribed medication known to reduce post MI mortality, and may also have greater difficulty following recommendations to reduce cardiac risk than their counterparts without depression. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-020701208 A |
| Classmark | ENR: CQH: LF7: CW: 7T |
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