{"id":223138,"date":"2018-07-24T21:34:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/treating-depression-in-heart-attack-survivors-cuts-risk-of-a-second\/"},"modified":"2018-07-24T21:34:33","modified_gmt":"2018-07-24T21:34:33","slug":"treating-depression-in-heart-attack-survivors-cuts-risk-of-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/healthmedicinet.com\/i\/treating-depression-in-heart-attack-survivors-cuts-risk-of-a-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating depression in heart attack survivors cuts risk of a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Give heart attack survivors antidepressants: Study finds treatment for mental health cuts the risk of another attack by 24%<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>About one third of heart attack survivors develops depression\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Subsequent major cardiac events strike some 20 percent of those who survive their first hear problem<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>Depression raises heart attack risks through its behavioral and biological effects<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"class\"><strong>But South Korean and British researchers found a short course of antidepressants can cut second heart attack risks by nearly one quarter\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By<\/p>\n<p>Natalie Rahhal For Dailymail.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"><span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-published\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Published:<\/span><br \/>\n  13:26 EDT, 24 July 2018<br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n | <span class=\"article-timestamp article-timestamp-updated\"><br \/>\n  <span class=\"article-timestamp-label\">Updated:<\/span><br \/>\n  15:15 EDT, 24 July 2018<br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"share-facebook-long\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-twitter\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-pinterest\"><\/li>\n<li class=\"share-gplus\">\n      <span class=\"g-interactivepost\"><br \/>\n        <a><\/a><br \/>\n      <\/span>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-email\">\n<p>                <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n        <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-icons\" id=\"shareLinkTop\">\n            <\/a>\n            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>     <span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"count-number\">          12<\/p>\n<p class=\"count-text\">View <br \/> comments<\/p>\n<p>    <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Treating depression<\/a> after a heart attack could help to prevent patients from having another life-threatening cardiac episode down the road, new research suggests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">After a first heart attack, both depression and a second heart attack are very common, with about 20 percent of people having another heart event within a year and about a third developing depression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Depression not only affects mental clarity and mood, but puts the body under stress too, raising blood pressure and risks for another heart attack.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But starting a patient on antidepressants immediately after their first cardiac episode disrupts their life may drastically reduce the odds of a recurrence by 23 percent, new research carried out by South Korean and British scientists suggests.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-978d5efb6450ea92\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Poor heart health and depression often go hand-in-hand, and treating the mental health disorder may reduce risks of a second heart attack by one quarter, new research suggests\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-978d5efb6450ea92\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/newpix\/2018\/07\/24\/18\/4E8A5D7C00000578-5987313-image-a-1_1532452878956.jpg\" height=\"415\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Poor heart health and depression often go hand-in-hand, and treating the mental health disorder may reduce risks of a second heart attack by one quarter, new research suggests\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Poor heart health and depression often go hand-in-hand, and treating the mental health disorder may reduce risks of a second heart attack by one quarter, new research suggests<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Heart disease and its complications still kill more people\u00a0than any other single cause of death in every country in the world, including the US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Rates of depression are similarly high in the US, with about 16.2 million adults suffering the common mental illness &#8211; and those numbers are rising.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Depression is particularly common and debilitating to older Americans, and heart patients are at even greater risk of developing the mood disorder.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Someone who has had a heart attack is more than twice as likely to develop depression as an adult who has never had a serious heart problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Heart problems and depression can form a kind of cycle. Some patients may feel depressed because they have poor heart health and depression may contribute to the heart&#8217;s further deterioration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Depression can harm the heart through both behavioral and biological pathways.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Heart-healthy habits and activities like healthy eating and regular exercise are simply not on the standard agenda for a depressed brain.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In older adults &#8211; who comprise the vast majority of heart patients &#8211; depression often doesn&#8217;t manifest as &#8216;sadness,&#8217; but as a lack of motivation or feelings of sluggishness and apathy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels link-bogr1 linkro-ccox\">\n<li>\n<p>  <span>The power of berries: Eating a handful every day reduces the&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>  <span>Giving adrenaline to people who have had a cardiac arrest&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This can result in patients who are eating poorly, staying sedentary and forgetting or skipping medications.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">While these good habits seem like lower priorities during bouts of depression, destructive activities like drinking and smoking tend to ramp up more and more as a person&#8217;s mood falls lower.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Meanwhile, depression can also wreak havoc the nervous system and comes with hormonal imbalances.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In tandem, these two effects can throw off the heart&#8217;s natural rhythm. Johns Hopkins even warns that the combination of depression and heart arrhythmias in patients hearts weakened by prior cardiac events seem to be particularly fatal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">There is also evidence linking changes in the composition of blood platelets to depression.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In patients living with the mood disorder, blood platelets seem to be more &#8216;sticky.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Platelets allow blood to clot, which is crucial to keeping us from bleeding to death, but these extra-sticky platelets can cause these blood cells to stick to the inside walls of arteries, making them thicken and harden more quickly.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6e67231e082d4c9a\" src=\"image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Those who took antidepressants were 23 percent less likely to have a second heart attack than patients who were given a placebo\u00a0\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p>    <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-6e67231e082d4c9a\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/i\/newpix\/2018\/07\/24\/18\/4E89C1CC00000578-5987313-image-m-3_1532453063830.jpg\" height=\"425\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Those who took antidepressants were 23 percent less likely to have a second heart attack than patients who were given a placebo\u00a0\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Those who took antidepressants were 23 percent less likely to have a second heart attack than patients who were given a placebo\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">This can worse and accelerate the development of atherosclerosis, a condition that can cause a stroke, fatal blood clot or another heart attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But the life-threatening overlap between depression and cardiac damage may be at least partially treatable, new research suggests.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Researchers in South Korea and the UK treated 300 patients who had had a heart attack and symptoms of depression with either a common antidepressant &#8211; escitalopram, the generic name for Lexapro &#8211; or a placebo.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Each participant took their prescribed medication &#8211; whether real or sham &#8211; for 24 weeks, and the researchers followed all of these patients for about eight years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Over the course of those years, 53.6 percent of those who took the placebo had a second major cardiac issue, but only 40.9 percent of those on antidepressants had a recurrence of any kind serious heart problem.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">The findings not only underscore the connection between mental and physical health, but antidepressants may offer a very cost-effective way to improve quality of life and reduce future heart attack risks for patients that have already suffered enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>            <!-- ad: http:\/\/mads.dailymail.co.uk\/v4\/us\/health\/none\/article\/other\/inread_player.html --><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"social-links-title\">Share or comment on this article: <\/h3>\n<ul class=\"bigLinks sc-icns cleared\">\n<li class=\"share-facebook-long\">\n<p>                                    <span class=\"wai\">e-mail<\/span><br \/>\n                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<li class=\"share-icons\" id=\"shareLinkBottom\">\n<p>                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<li class=\"social-stats social-stats-pipe\" id=\"shareCountBottom\">\n<\/li>\n<li id=\"addCommentButton\" class=\"add-comment\">\n<p>                                <\/a>\n                            <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"rotator-panels\">\n<li class=\"new shallow-ac mini link-bogr6 linkro-wocc\">\n<p>              <span class=\"wocc bdrcc\"><br \/>\n                Here ABBA go again&#8230; 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