Link Found between Depression and Heart Failure Death
Depression appears to increase the risk of death from congestive heart failure, but it remains unclear whether treating the depression would improve longevity, according to a recent report.
The study from Duke University Medical Center evaluated 374 patients who were admitted to a hospital for congestive heart failure. It found that nearly 14 percent of them had a major depressive disorder.
Congestive heart failure is a condition in which the heart is unable to pump enough blood to meet the needs of the body. This disease afflicts more than two million people in the United States.
Patients with congestive heart failure and major depression were more than twice as likely as non-depressed patients to die or to be re-admitted within three months to one year after hospitalization.
Severely depressed patients had the highest mortality rates after three months and after a year - 13 percent and 26 percent, respectively. Patients with mild depression had death rates of 7.4 percent after three months and 11.1 percent after a year, according to the Archives of Internal Medicine (2001;161:1849-1856).
Information provided is courtesy of and compiled by the Academy of Anti-Aging Research.
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