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Depression Following Myocardial Infarction: Prevalence, Clinical Consequences, and Patient Management

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Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

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The search for psychological factors involved in the development and/or progression of coronary heart disease (CHD) has been a fairly persistent, although not always fruitful, activity over the last few decades. Both the clinical observation that CHD patients seem to exhibit certain psychological profiles and the apparent failure of traditional risk factors, such as smoking, high blood pressure and cholesterol, and low levels of physical exertion, to predict anywhere near all new instances of CHD have helped fuel an expectation that there may be other, psychological, predisposing factors at work.

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  1. Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust, University Department of Medicine, Birmingham, UK

    Deirdre A. Lane BSc, PhD

  2. School of Sport and Exercise Psychology, University of Birmingham Edgbaston, Birmingham, UK

    Douglas Carroll PhD

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  1. Public Health Department, Kalmar County, Oskarshamn, Sweden

    Joep Perk FESC

  2. Klinische Kardiologie II, Herz-Zentrum Bad Krozingen, Germany

    Helmut Gohlke FACC, FESC

  3. Institute of Health Sciences Department of Earth Sciences, Vrije University, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  4. Department of Cardiology, Vrije University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Irene Hellemans MD, (Speciality Cardiology), PhD

  5. Hôpital Broussais-HEGP, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris, France

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  6. Department of Cardiology, Technical University of Munich Munich Rehabilitation Center, München, Germany

    Peter Mathes MD, FACC, FESC

  7. Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Bois Gilbert, Ballan Miré, France

    Catherine Monpère MD

  8. Department of Psychology, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland

    Hannah McGee BA(Mod), PhD, RegPsycholFPsSI

  9. Swiss Cardiovascular Center Bern Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation University, Hospital Inselspital, Switzerland

    Hugo Saner MD

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Lane, D.A., Carroll, D. (2007). Depression Following Myocardial Infarction: Prevalence, Clinical Consequences, and Patient Management. In: Perk, J., et al. Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-502-8_32

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