Research from the Netherlands shows that patients whose first experience of depression follows a heart attack are at increased risk of heart problems. Seperate research from the UK indicates that patients with a severe mental illness are 3.22 times more likely to die from coronary heart disease and 2.53 times more likely to die from a stroke.
Journal of the American College of Cardiology (2006) online DOI: 10.1016/j.jacc.2006.06.077
Archives of General Psychiatry (2007) 64:242-249
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