The worst enemy for heart health is depression ...

The worst enemy for heart health is depression ...

Whether mild or severe, severe depression can increase the risk of heart failure by almost 40%. 

This is demonstrated by a study in more than 63,000 Norwegians and recently performed at the EuroHeartCare 2014, the annual meeting of the Council of Cardiovascular Nursing and Allied Professions (CCNAP) of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).

The author of the work, Lise Tuset Taste Hospital Levanger, Norway, said that in his research "has found a dose-response relationship between depressive symptoms and the risk of developing heart failure., That is, the more depressed you are, more risk. "

This is one of the first large prospective studies analyzing whether depression increases the risk of developing heart failure. The data include more than 63,000 people in the Nord-Trøndelag Health Study

The researchers obtained information in 1995 on the body mass index, physical activity, smoking and blood pressure, add the Spanish newspaper ABC.

Moreover the depression was rated. Thanks to all the citizens of Norway receives a unique 11-digit number at birth that is used in hospitals and the National Mortality Registry, the researchers used this number to track patients who were hospitalized or died due to a failure heart during the 11 years of the work.

Disabling

During this period nearly 1,500 people developed heart failure.

Compared with those with no symptoms of depression, people with mild symptoms were 5% higher risk of developing heart failure, whereas those with moderate to severe symptoms, the risk was almost 40% larger stresses Special Report.

According to the Scandinavian researcher, "depressive symptoms increase the likelihood of developing heart failure, and the more severe they are, the greater the risk."

It adds that "depressed people have less healthy life styles."

Depression, she says, is disabling. "In fact, blocks the ability of people to take their medications as directed, smoking cessation, improving your diet or exercise more."

Incidentally, mental health specialists Metropolitan Hospital of Chicago drew the journal Science that depression is "cancer of the century", killing more people than HIV or the same cell degeneration. "Experts suggest that the consumer society has finished accelerating "patterns of everyday life" to an end today by practitioners themselves unsustainable and "basically a state that does not quite take seriously the risk involved in managing a depressive society".

Anti depression

Exercise The Nord-Trøndelag Health Study recommended half hour of exercise five days a week to prevent everyday problems end up "set the agenda of psychological depression."

Escape A good book, a movie, or a good meal, help stimulate the brain and positively flee any depressive symptoms.

Empathy Humans are sociable. So an alternative is to open up to others.

Om Namah Shivay