Depression after heart attack: Threat perception has to be addressed, experts urge
Monday, January 14, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
Survivors of heart attacks are three times more likely to develop depression during the first six months after their heart attack, than people with no heart disease, new research suggests. If left untreated this contributes to a worse prognosis, for instance further cardiac events and possibly death, researchers say.