Depression in Women Can Hurt the Heart
(HealthDayNews, 3/4//04)

Dr. Anastasia Georgiades and colleagues at Duke University Medical Center administered the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), a diagnostic questionnaire, to 265 women admitted for cardiac catheterization. The scientists tracked the patients for approximately 2 years, during which time 12% of the women died. The investigators found that women with the highest levels of depression, as measured by the BDI, were twice as likely to die as those with the lowest levels.