10-Year prevalence, trends and predictors of depression among patients with heart failure in the USA:2007 –2016

Heart failure (HF) constitutes a major public health problem in the USA with self-management playing a key role in treatment. Depressed patients often have poor insights which correlates with increased rates of adverse events such as emergency room visits, admissions and readmissions, length of hospital stay and mortality.

Source: International Journal of Cardiology - November 10, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Muchi Ditah Chobufo, Saad Khan, Valirie Ndip Agbor, Ebad Rahman, Joyce Bei Foryoung, Ayodeji Jolayemi, Saikiran Jonnadula, Neal Kumar Patel, Sostanie Enoru, Alix Dufresne, Tonga Nfor Source Type: research