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January 01, 2009; Volume 76,Issue 1
Zhang, Jianping
- You have accessDepression and heart disease: What do we know, and where are we headed?Leo Pozuelo, MD, Jianping Zhang, MD, PhD, Kathleen Franco, MD, George Tesar, MD, Marc Penn, MD, PhD and Wei Jiang, MDCleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine January 2009, 76 (1) 59-70; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3949/ccjm.75a.08011
Depression is a risk factor for new cardiac disease and has a detrimental effect in established cardiac disease. Clinicians should routinely screen for it in cardiac patients and should not hesitate to treat it.