European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on May 5, 2007
European Heart Journal 2007 28(13):1661-1662; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm128
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Meta-analysis urges the development of new strategies to treat depression in order to improve cardiac prognosis: reply
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de Jonge and Van Melle's model, suggesting that the somatic symptoms of depression may impair prognosis in CHD independently of severity of disease, offers a useful framework for future work.1 The first step will be to confirm that such an independent effect exists. Their findings