Mortality Risk Among Heart Failure Patients With Depression: A Nationwide Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT: The prevalence of depression is 4- to 5-fold higher in heart failure patients than in the general population. We examined the influence of depression on all-cause mortality in patients with heart failure. Using Danish medical registries, this nationwide population-based cohort study included all patients with a first-time hospitalization for heart failure (1995-2014). All-cause mortality risks and 19-year mortality rate ratios were estimated based on Cox regression analysis, adjusting for age, sex, time period, comorbidity, and socioeconomic status. The analysis included 9636 patients with and 194 887 patients without a diagnosis of depression. Compared with patients without a history of depression, those with depression had higher 1-year (36% versus 33%) and 5-year (68% versus 63%) mortal

SUBMITTER: Adelborg K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5079053 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature