心脏病发作后发展抑郁症增加了一个人死亡或入伍的风险
科学已发现抑郁症和其他严重医疗疾病之间的许多联系,如癌症,中风,糖尿病和心脏病。例如,在心脏病发作(心肌梗死)或胸痛(心绞痛)之后发育抑郁症的人在持续持续的一年内具有升高的心脏死亡或医院入院风险。在10月15日发布的一项新研究中生物精神病学,研究人员报告说,只有在冠状动脉事件发生后开始的抑郁症与增加的心脏相关的发病率和死亡率相关,但这种风险增加很大。
作者招募为ACS住院的患者,并为终身和目前的抑郁进行评估。然后患者进行一年,随着抑郁和心脏健康的额外评估。具体而言,他们发现心血管结果与住院时的先前或现有的抑郁症无关。相比之下,即使在控制年龄,性别和吸烟状态等传统心脏病风险因素之后,在ACS事件增加了3次后,在该月开发的抑郁症。
John H. Krystal,M.D.编辑生物精神病学和耶鲁大学医学院和VA康涅狄格州医疗保健系统,评论,“抑郁症可能是煤矿中的”金丝雀“,这是一种炎症性疾病过程的相对早期的迹象,有助于冠状动脉疾病和其他医疗疾病。“He adds, "The current study suggests that depression may be heterogeneous with respect to its association with inflammatory disease processes, so it will be very important to develop biomarkers, i.e., objective and quantitative tests that can identify the subtype of depression that is a component of systemic disease processes." Senior authors Gordon Parker and Catherine Owen further discuss: "If confirmed, [this finding] has the potential to greatly enhance the ability of health professionals to identify and allocate resources to those patients who are at the greatest risk. This finding also has the potential to shed light on the mechanisms by which post-ACS depression is associated with reduced survival; an area that is still very poorly understood."
来源:elestvier
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