title: [Depression and cardiovascular risk. Relationship, pathogenetic mechanisms, treatment and patient management. A review of the literature].
abstract: Depression is more frequent and also associated with a worse prognosis, in patient suffering from coronary artery disease. Although growing researches have been performed in the last year, confirming the importance of this association, the causal mechanisms still remains not fully understood. The treatment and patient management represents another not clarified issue. In this review of the literature we analyze the connections between depression and cardiovascular disease in terms of possible pathophysiological mechanism, cardiovascular prognosis, treatment and patient management.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Neurologia e Psichiatria, University Sapienza of Rome, Italy. lilly.46@hotmail.it
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Todini
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Majorana
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Luciani
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orso
mesh_terms: D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans