Depression, Health Care Services And Heart Attacks: What’s The Connection?

Data from almost 2000 heart attack patients showed that depression symptoms alone resulted in an increase in health service consumption. The data also showed that depression caused the greatest increase in health service use in those patients with lower cardiac illness severity. This is one of the first studies to quantify the relationship between depression symptoms, cardiac illness severity and their effect on health service consumption.

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