ABSTRACT
Evidence is mounting that depression is a risk factor for the development of cardiovascular disease and portends a worse outcome in cardiac patients. Depression can be easily diagnosed and safely treated in cardiac patients, but it is undertreated.
Footnotes
↵* Dr. Malhotra has indicated that she has received grant or research support from the Pfizer corporation, serves as a consultant for the Ortho-McNeil corporation, and is on the speakers’ bureaus of the Ortho-McNeil and Pfizer corporations.
↵† Dr. Franco has indicated that she is on the speakers’ bureau of the Pfizer corporation.
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