Association between depression and worse disease-specific functional status in outpatients with coronary artery disease

Qualidade de vida em pacientes com doença ateroclerótica coronariana grave e estável

“…The item physical aspects showed to be especially impaired, with 50.0% of the patients presenting a score < 50. Our data do not allow us to conclude on all the causes for this alteration, but they would be in accordance with the study by Spertus et al 4 , who described disease-related functional status impairment in patients with DAC and symptoms of depression.…”

“…Studies have shown a higher incidence of cardiovascular events among the population with depressive symptoms or low scores of quality of life (QoL) indicators. Additionally, patients with established coronary artery disease (CAD) present QoL impairment and high levels of stress, caused by the disease itself, physical limitation and risk of death, closing a vicious circle that intensifies the disease progression [1][2][3][4] . It is believed that, in addition to disease severity, the association of comorbidities, such as diabetes mellitus (DM), arterial hypertension (AH) and obesity, frequently Another study 13 showed that women older than 65 years with symptoms of depression presented an unfavorable clinical evolution, with worse prognosis, six months after a cardiovascular event.…”

Screening older people with musculoskeletal pain for depressive symptoms in primary care

“…The high levels of comorbid depressive symptoms found in the current study using the HADS are comparable to the levels demonstrated in other chronic illnesses such as coronary heart disease 30,31 and diabetes. 32,33 To date, less is known about the prevalence of comorbid depressive symptoms in older patients with musculoskeletal pain, 17 although the high prevalence of depressive symptoms in patients with fibromyalgia (estimates range from 20-80%) 34,35 and low back pain (20%) 36 suggest that chronic pain syndromes and depressive symptoms frequently coexist.…”

Psychological symptom clusters, psychiatric comorbidity and poor self-reported health status following myocardial infarction

“…The SAQ is a 19-item disease-specific self-report measure for patients with CAD and has been used to assess patient outcomes in acute coronary syndromes (26). It has been demonstrated to be a valid and reproducible measure and to be sensitive to clinical change (25,27). In addition, it has been shown to be predictive of 1-year mortality (28).…”