Depressed patients who undergo heart transplantation because of a certain type of heart disease are about five times as likely to die in the first few years after surgery as similar patients who are not depressed, according to a new study.
The association between depression and death was only seen among patients with heart failure due to coronary heart disease, or ischemic cardiomyopathy, and not in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarging of the heart caused by genetic, viral, immune or sometimes unknown factors. Patients with either heart conditions have high levels of depression, anxiety and physical dysfunction, found study author Stephan Zipfel, M.D., of the University of Heidelberg, Medical Hospital, Germany.
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