Patients at high risk of depression are more than five times more likely to have a poor self-perceived health status and almost four times more likely to be dissatisfied with their healthcare, found study.
Patients at high risk of depression had notably worse healthcare-related quality of life. They spent more on overall and out-of-pocket healthcare expenditures yearly.
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‘Depression and heart attack often coexist and associated with worse health experiences for heart patients. About one-fifth of cardiovascular disease patients suffer from depression.’
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They were more than two times more likely to be hospitalised and have an increased use of the emergency room, said the researchers while presenting the results at the American Heart Association's Quality of Care and Outcomes Research Scientific Sessions 2018 in Virginia.
"This could be because people at high risk for depression simply haven't been diagnosed and treated for depression yet," said Victor Okunrintemi, a research student at Baptist Health South Florida, a US-based non-profit.
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Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting approximately 340 million people in the world. No one is immune from depression - it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings.
In another study, the team found that heart attack patients diagnosed with depression were 54 per cent more likely to be hospitalised and 43 per cent more likely to have emergency room visits, compared to those not diagnosed with depression.
"While we don't know which comes first -- depression or cardiovascular disease -- the consensus is that depression is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease," Okunrintemi said.
It means that "if you have cardiovascular disease, there is a higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the risk in the general population", he added.
Source: IANS
Depression
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders affecting approximately 340 million people in the world. No one is immune from depression - it occurs in people of all social classes, all countries and all cultural settings.
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In another study, the team found that heart attack patients diagnosed with depression were 54 per cent more likely to be hospitalised and 43 per cent more likely to have emergency room visits, compared to those not diagnosed with depression.
"While we don't know which comes first -- depression or cardiovascular disease -- the consensus is that depression is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease," Okunrintemi said.
It means that "if you have cardiovascular disease, there is a higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the risk in the general population", he added.
Source: IANS
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The World Health Organization reports that depression is one of the main causes of disability affecting about 121 million people worldwide. More tragically, it claims around 850,000 lives every year. Hence, it is important that we understand this affliction to help ourselves or our loved ones to cope and, hopefully, resolve it. How well do you know the facts about depression? Take this quiz and f
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