Get out of doldrums
a recent research now says that depression may be as dangerous as high cholesterol in giving you a heart attack.
The new study by William W Eaton of the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health, in Baltimore, us, shows that those depressed were four times more likely to have a heart attack as compared to those with a cheery state of mind. The researchers studied over 1,500 people in the Baltimore area, who were screened for depression during the '80s. Among the 444 people who were depressed 13 years ago, 27 had heart attacks as compared to just 37 of the 1,107 who did not suffer from this mental ailment.
The investigators statistically adjusted their data with other factors like age, sex, marital status and a history of blood pressure
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