middle-aged women with a history of depression seem risk of heart disease increased significantly, new research suggests. The conclusion s...
middle-aged women with a history of depression seem risk of heart disease increased significantly, new research suggests.
The conclusion seems to be the connection between the known issues to strengthen with depression and heart, but does not prove a cause and effect.
Followed about 1,100 women over 10 years, researchers have found that depression is the only significant risk factor for coronary heart disease was in women under 65 who had no history of heart disease from the outset.
In women over 65 years, but age was identified as the only significant predictor of heart disease, the researchers found.
Heart disease is the leading killer of men and women in the United States, responsible for a quarter of deaths annually, according to the Centers for Disease Control and prevention of disease.
"Once we added the Depression ... with other known risk factors for coronary heart disease, depression was the major only" in women under 65 years, said study author Dr. Xuezhi Jiang, a gynecologist reading Reading Hospital, Pa. "Which is a bit surprising."
at the annual meeting of the North American Menopause Society in Orlando, Florida The study was presented to Wednesday.
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Jiang and his team followed 1084 women, the routine mammograms in a radiology center in 2004. The average age was, was 55. Each well asking completed a questionnaire with three questions sad or depressed feeling; helpless; or sad and depressed.
More health information were also taken, including cardiovascular risk factors of the participants, such as family history, smoking, exercise levels, high blood pressure or diabetes. A similar questionnaire Depression was sent to each participant four times over the next 10 years to get tracking information and all changes in heart disease condition.
Of the 1,030 women who initially had no history of heart disease, 18 percent responded "yes" to at least one question Depression. For women, 9 percent one or more cases of heart disease in the next 10 years had compared to only 2 percent reported "no" to the feeling of depression.
in the development of heart disease in women under 65 years Although scientists do not really understand depression the only significant risk factor why depression increases the risk of heart disease, Jiang said, increase depression the production of stress hormones in the body can play a role in heart problems.
Simon Rego is chief psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center / Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York. He said the new study highlights the serious consequences of mental illness on health outcomes may have.
"The most important message of our selection is for mental health to improve sites and extend these tests traditionally presented for these conditions, in this case the women for routine breast cancer," Rego said. he was not involved in the new research.
Rego I observed that the depression has on health, such as reduced levels of exercise and activity can affect change in eating habits and sleeping, and alcohol and drug use increased behaviors. He said further research should determine whether these factors may also influence the risk of heart disease.
The research was at scientific meetings generally presented or published and the results are appraised as provisional.
