Depressed heart patients skip medications, have elevated stress hormones
28th Nov 2005, 22:07 GMT
Recent studies conducted at the San Francisco VA Medical Center suggest two possible mechanisms for the widely recognized link between depression and adverse outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease: lack of adherence to medication regimens and increased levels of norepinephrine, a stress hormone.
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