Negative illness perceptions are associated with new-onset depression following myocardial infarction.

Objective: To test the hypothesis that negative perceptions about heart disease at the time of the myocardial infarction (MI) were associated with the onset of new episodes of depression following MI.

Method: We recruited 269 subjects admitted following first MI and monitored their depression status over the subsequent 12 months. At baseline, we recorded demographic information, family and personal history of cardiac disease and severity of MI; subjective health beliefs were assessed using the Illness Perceptions Questionnaire (IPQ).

Persistent depressive disorders and social stress in people of Pakistani origin and white Europeans in UK.

Introduction: We compared depression, social stress and treatment in people of Pakistani origin and white Europeans living in an UK city.

Method: In a population-based two-phase sample of 1,856 adults we interviewed 651 (77%) of eligible participants, using the schedule for clinical assessment in neuropsychiatry and life events and difficulties schedule. We identified 216 people with depressive and 208 with subthreshold disorder; after 6-months we re-interviewed 398 (94% response).

New onset depression following myocardial infarction predicts cardiac mortality.

Objective: Studies investigating the effects of depression on mortality following myocardial infarction (MI) have produced heterogeneous findings. We report on a study investigating whether the timing of the onset of depression, with regard to the MI, affected its impact on subsequent cardiac mortality.

Methods: Five hundred and eighty-eight subjects admitted following MI underwent assessments of cardiac status, cardiac risk factors, and noncardiac illness.

Depression is a risk factor for mortality after myocardial infarction: fact or artifact?

Objectives: This study sought to investigate the long-term impact of depression on cardiac mortality after myocardial infarction (MI) and to assess whether the timing of depression influences the findings.

Background: Previous studies have shown that depression increases the risk of cardiac death after MI, although some studies with robust methodology have failed to show this effect. Clinical trials of depression treatments have failed to improve mortality.

Association between depressive episode before first myocardial infarction and worse cardiac failure following infarction.

Depression following myocardial infarction is associated with a higher mortality rate. The authors studied 314 patients admitted to the hospital with a first myocardial infarction to assess whether cardiac failure after the infarction, which is also linked to a higher mortality rate, was predicted by psychosocial characteristics present before the myocardial infarction. One-fifth (20.

The relationship between vital exhaustion, depression and comorbid illnesses in patients following first myocardial infarction.

Objective: Vital exhaustion and depression are both independent risk factors for cardiovascular disease, yet the relationship between these highly similar dimensions remains unclear. We have examined the association between depression and vital exhaustion and investigated the extent to which any association is the result of comorbid illnesses.

Methods: Three hundred and five consecutive patients were examined on average 3.

Bio-social origins of depression in the community. Interactions between social adversity, cortisol and serotonin neurotransmission.

Background: Social adversity may be a risk factor for depression, by increasing cortisol secretion, which impairs serotonin (5-HT) neurotransmission.

Aims: To examine this causal pathway in a community setting.

Method: Women who were currently ICD-10 depressed (n=94), vulnerable to depression but not depressed (n=166) and non-vulnerable controls (n=177) were recruited.