After a heart attack , surgery to clear blocked arteries or a diagnosis of heart failure , a person is three to four times more likely than a healthy peer to show signs of clinical depression . … The American Heart Assn.’s 2008 advisory concluded that patients with heart disease should routinely be screened for depressive symptoms , that a relatively new generation of antidepressants , the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), are safe for use in this patient …
Read more:
Treating Depression | Medicine Pursues A Mind-heart Connection …
Popularity: 1% [?]
Technorati Tags: 2008-advisory, a-healthy-peer, a-heart-attack, are-safe, assn-, four-times, heart-attack, heart-failure, patient, relatively-new, times