¿Qué Sistema de Salud? Broken Health Care in Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico's politically liminal status as a US territory has dire consequences for Puerto Rico's economy: the island does not receive the same funding as states for health insurance. In addition, Puerto Rico's unraveling health care system, coupled with the island's high poverty rate and the medical brain drain, interact. I weave my research on depression into this article as an example of the ways in which political and economic factors aggravate disease.

Religiosity prevalence and its association with depression and anxiety symptoms among Hispanic/Latino adults.

Objectives: Religion plays an important role in the lives of people in the United States. We examined the prevalence of religiosity among Hispanic/Latinos in four regions of the United States and looked at its correlation to depression and anxiety symptoms.

Design: The population-based Hispanic Community Health Study/ Study of Latinos enrolled a cohort of Hispanic/Latino adults (N = 16,415) ages 18-74 in four US cities from June 2008 to June 2011.

Relation of depression to coronary endothelial function.

The purpose of this study was to determine the association between depression and coronary endothelial function and cardiac risk factors in men and women without obstructive coronary artery disease. Patients with no significant coronary artery disease who underwent invasive coronary endothelial function assessment with acetylcholine were studied. Men and women were divided into 2 groups: those with depression and those without.