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Examining Depressive Symptoms Over Time In Women With Coronary Heart Disease, Sydney A. Buckland
Examining Depressive Symptoms Over Time In Women With Coronary Heart Disease, Sydney A. Buckland
Theses & Dissertations
Coronary heart disease (CHD) is the number one killer of women in the US. Women also experience roughly twice as much depression as men, and depression in CHD is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. Despite these facts, women continue to be under-represented in CHD research, and results by gender are not routinely reported.
Screening for depression in this population is problematic due to inconsistent inclusion of somatic symptoms on screening instruments and disagreement about appropriate cutoff scores.
This body of work clarifies the concept of depression in women with CHD, presents a systematic review of the longitudinal literature on …