Diseases
Guidelines: Heart patients need screening of depression
By Ben Wasserman
Sep 29, 2008 - 6:11:48 PM

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Monday Sep 29, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- Heart patients should be screened routinely for depression because they are at a higher risk of depression, according to guidelines released by the American Heart Association today.

Why should heart patients subject themselves to the screening of depression?  

Researchers at Yale University School of Medicine said patients who had heart attack were three times as likely to have depression as those who did not have.

Then why do patients have to get depression treated?

The researchers said depressed heart patients were at higher risk for more heart problems.

It sounds like a vicious cycle.

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