New study: Heart disease and depression there is often in a double

Heart disease has a great deal to do with the appearance of symptoms of depression. The frequency of depression increases in people without cardiovascular symptoms but with risk factors  from people with already existing (manifest) cardiovascular diseases to patients with manifest cardiac insufficiency (cardiac insufficiency, HI). Symptoms of depression are more likely to be found in patients with HI that can be traced back to circulatory disorders ("ischemic" HI) than in other forms of HI. That is the result of a study with 3.433 participants, which was carried out at the 79th annual conference of the German Society for Cardiology (DGK) in Mannheim by private lecturer Dr. Thomas Müller-Tasch (Heidelberg) were presented. The data basis was provided by the Heart Failure Competence Network; the depressive complaints of the patients were recorded using a questionnaire (PHQ-9).

It is important to note the complex interaction between depression and HI symptoms

"Note the complex interaction between the depression and the HI-symptoms," said PD Müller-Tash. "So a depressive coping with pronounced HI symptoms as a possible exaggeration of symptom descriptions due to the depressive mood appears just as plausible." Currently, it is investigated whether the differences of depression incidence between the examined groups of patients affect the disease prognosis.

Source:

P1835; Association of clinical-medical profile and depression in cardiovascular diseases - cross-project analyzes from the Heart Failure Competence Network; T. Müller-Tasch, G. Gelbrich, S. Stauffenberg, S. Störk, G. Ertl, C. Herrmann-Lingen, R. Wachter, B. Pieske, HA Katus, N. Loßnitzer, V. Regitz-Zagrosek, S. Pankuweit, H.-D. Fertilizing, W. Herzog, CE Angermann

Source: Mannheim [DGK]