Heart Patients Need to be Screened for Depression

The American Heart Association recommends that heart patients should be screened for depression. Depression is three times more common in heart patients than in the general population, but only one-half of doctors say that they treat depression in their patients. Perhaps with better awareness, patients will have more effective recoveries because patients that are depressed are less likely to follow post-treatment procedures.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/09/29/heart.patients.depression.ap/index.html