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European Heart Journal 2003 24(22):1997-1998; doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2003.09.014
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Editorial

Depression and cardiovascular disease: a complex relationship

Norman Sharpe*

Department of Medicine, University of Auckland School of Medicine, Auckland, New Zealand

* Corresponding author: +64 9 575-8573; fax: +64 9 575-9639
E-mail address: n.sharpe@auckland.ac.nz

Received 2 September 2003; accepted 19 September 2003

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See doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2003.08.017 and doi:10.1016/j.ehj.2003.09.003 for the articles to which this editorial refers

A large literature attests to the strong relationship between depression and cardiovascular disease. A number of studies have shown an association between depression and coronary mortality raising the obvious question as to whether depression is a causative factor contributing to coronary heart disease, a consequence, or both. This area of study where cardiac and psychosocial scientists have joined only relatively recently is a very difficult one. Nevertheless, modern paradigms for coronary heart disease have certainly now been extended beyond purely biomedical concepts . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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