Treating Depression Can Help Heart Rate Variability Recovery After Heart Attack And Other Coronary Syndromes
‘A patient with depression may find it harder to recover his/her heart rate variability after a heart attack, increasing his/her chances of coronary death. Patients who are successfully treated for depression tend to experience improvement in heart rate variability after acute coronary syndromes, compared to depressed patient’s who aren’t (treated for depression), says an article in Archives of General Psychiatry (JAMA/Archives), September issue.
The degree to which your heart rate changes from beat to beat in response to normal impulses is known as your heart rate variability.
The authors wrote “Low heart rate variability predicts death after myocardial infarction (heart attack). It is reduced in depressed compared with non-depressed patients after myocardial infarction and has been proposed to be a mediator of the increased mortality associated with depression.” Patients without depression who have an acute coronary episode experience a fall in heart rate variability - this recovers substantially in the months after an episode (not completely).’
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