Depression: Links to Cardiovascular Disease

Dr. John Freedy, a family medicine doctor with his PhD in psychology, discusses the relation between depression and heart and vascular disease, explaining that depression in early adulthood increases the risk of heart disease later in life as well as the likelihood of complication after a heart attack. Dr. Freedy offers different possibilities for the underlying link between the depression and cardiovascular disease in this heart disease podcast.
Source: MUSC Mental Health Podcast - Category: Psychiatry Authors: Source Type: podcasts