The Association of Mental Health over Time with Cardiac Outcomes in HEMO Study Patients
Author(s) -
Ea Wha Kang,
Francis Pike,
Sarah Ramer,
Khaled Abdel-Kader,
Larissa Myaskovsky,
Mary Amanda Dew,
Mark L. Unruh
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
clinical journal of the american society of nephrology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.755
H-Index - 151
eISSN - 1555-905X
pISSN - 1555-9041
DOI - 10.2215/cjn.06730711
Subject(s) - medicine , association (psychology) , mental health , cardiology , emergency medicine , psychiatry , epistemology , philosophy
Poor mental health over time is significantly associated with cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in the general population, which is the leading cause of death in dialysis patients. Most studies of dialysis patients, however, have investigated the relationship between baseline mental health measurements and all-cause mortality and not mental health measured longitudinally throughout a study and cause-specific mortality.
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