Depression: The New Heartbreaker
Monday, May 18th, 2009As what is reported at
the American Psychosomatic Society meeting in Chicago, depression makes it twice as possible for persons to develop cardiovascular diseases, as a result or a long-term study on twins.
There are a lot of clinical evidences that points out that depression makes a person more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases. Although there are studies that arrived with some facts that genes play a major role in making a person at risk for developing heart diseases.
The twins study had covered an approximately, or more than 1,200 middle-aged men, makes out a little conclusion of how genetic make-up can bring cardiovascular diseases, and this study also arrived to the fact that depression takes a major part in the pathophysiology of the disease.