Relation between depression after coronary artery bypass surgery and 12-month outcome: A prospective study

Ingrid Connerney, Peter A. Shapiro, Joseph S. McLaughlin, Emilia Bagiella, Richard P. Sloan

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Abstract

Background: The association of depression with cardiac events has been investigated mainly in community cohorts, in patients undergoing catheterisation, or in patients who have had myocardial infarction. We have assessed the effect of depression on outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. Methods: In a prospective study, we followed up for 1 year 207 men and 102 women, who had undergone coronary artery bypass graft surgery. We assessed depression with a structured psychiatric interview (diagnostic interview schedule) and a questionnaire (Beck depression inventory) before discharge. Cardiac events included angina or heart failure that needed admission to hospital, myocardial infarction, cardiac arrest, percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty, repeat CABG, and cardiac mortality. Non-cardiac events consisted of all other reasons for mortality or readmission. Findings: 63 patients (20%) met modified diagnostic statistical manual IV criteria for major depressive disorder. At 12 months, 17 (27%) of these patients had a cardiac event compared with 25 of 246 (10%) who were not depressed (p<0.0008). Five variables had significant univariate associations with cardiac events: sex, living alone, low ejection fraction (<0.35), length of hospital stay, and depression. In a Cox proportional-hazard model with these five and two other variables of cardiac severity, major depressive disorder (risk ratio 2.3 [95% CI 1.17-4.56]), low ejection fraction (2.3 [1.07-5.03]), and female sex (2.4 [1.24-4.44]) were associated with adverse outcomes. Depression did not predict deaths or admissions for non-cardiac events. Interpretation: Depression is an important independent risk factor for cardiac events after CABG surgery.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)1766-1771
Number of pages6
JournalThe Lancet
Volume358
Issue number9295
DOIs
StatePublished - 24 Nov 2001
Externally publishedYes

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