ABSTRACT
Depression and heart disease have an intricate association and perhaps a causal relationship. We review the current status of depression and heart disease and provide an algorithm for diagnosing and treating depression in cardiac patients that internists and cardiologists can use in their daily patient encounters.
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- Leo Pozuelo, MD⇑,
- Jianping Zhang, MD, PhD,
- Kathleen Franco, MD,
- George Tesar, MD,
- Marc Penn, MD, PhD and
- Wei Jiang, MD
- Section Head, Consultation Psychiatry, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
- Associate Director, Bakken Heart-Brain Institute
- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Cleveland Clinic
- Department of Psychiatry, Zucker Hillside Hospital, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Glen Oaks, NY
- Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Cleveland Clinic
- Associate Dean, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
- Chairman, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Cleveland Clinic
- Director, Bakken Heart-Brain Institute
- Director, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, Cleveland Clinic
- Associate Professor, Medicine, Psychiatry, and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC
- Investigator, Sertraline AntiDepressant Heart Attack Randomized Trial (SADHART)-CHF study
- ADDRESS:
Leopoldo Pozuelo, MD, Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, P57, Cleveland Clinic, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44195; e-mail pozuell{at}ccf.org.
ABSTRACT
Depression and heart disease have an intricate association and perhaps a causal relationship. We review the current status of depression and heart disease and provide an algorithm for diagnosing and treating depression in cardiac patients that internists and cardiologists can use in their daily patient encounters.
- Copyright © 2009 The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. All Rights Reserved.