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Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2008;300(20):2356-2357.

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Clinicians should regularly screen patients with coronary heart disease for depression because effective depression treatment may improve health outcomes, according to a science advisory from the American Heart Association (AHA).

Because depression and coronary heart disease can worsen outcomes when they occur together, physicians should treat both.

The advisory, issued September 29 and endorsed by the American Psychiatric Association, provides easy screening tools to rapidly assess patients for depression or depressionlike symptoms and offers suggestions for referral of patients to begin depression treatment (Lichtman JH et al. Circulation. 2008;118[17]:1768-1775).

The emergence of evidence that comorbid depression and coronary heart disease leads to worse outcomes for both conditions prompted the AHA to issue this first-ever advisory on the topic, said Judith H. Lichtman, PhD, MPH, cochair of the committee that wrote the advisory.

Depression in patients with coronary heart disease has an impact on how a patient fares . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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