Risk for first onset depression in adults with congenital heart disease.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The long-term risk for depression among adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) is unclear. Therefore, we assessed the risk for first onset of serious depression in patients with ACHD compared with a sex- and age-matched control population without a congenital heart disease (CHD) diagnosis.

Methods

We extracted all patients with CHD born from 1970 to 1999 who survived until age 18 years from the Swedish National Patient Register. For each case, 10 random controls without CHD were selected from the general population and matched by birth year and sex. Participants were followed-up until the first diagnosis of new onset serious depression requiring hospital or specialist outpatient care.

Results

This study included 22,912 patients with ACHD and 224,259 co

SUBMITTER: Nielsen SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11657541 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature