[Anxiety and mood disorders are independent risk factors for cardiovascular diseases].

Objective: Psychiatric conditions are insufficiently highlighted as cardiovascular risk factors in the CVRM guideline. Objectives of this review are 1) to determine if anxiety and mood symptoms/disorders are independent cardiovascular risk factors; 2) to compare this risk to a population without these psychiatric conditions and 3) to ascertain the influence of psychiatric disease severity.

Design: Narrative systematic review METHOD: We searched for meta-analyses and systematic reviews in PubMed.