Depressive symptoms at 1 year after surgery increase the risk of cardiac allograft vasculopathy and mortality in heart transplant recipients: A prospective cohort study.
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
; 71: 20-26, 2021.
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| ID: mdl-33915443
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
To investigate the impact of depressive symptoms at 1-year post-heart transplant (HTx) on cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV) and mortality.METHODS:
We performed a single-center prospective cohort study of patients 1-year post-HTx consecutively enrolled between January 2001 and September 2015, and followed-up until November 2020. Kaplan-Meier and uni- and multivariate cox proportional hazards models were used to investigate the impact of depressive symptoms (Beck Depression Inventory) on all-cause mortality and clustered CAV events, i.e. time to angiographically detected CAV, revascularizations, retransplantation/CAV-mortality.RESULTS:
23.7% (45/190) (median age 53.5 [IQR 19.3], 77% men) had mild to severe depressive symptoms (BDI 10-63). Forty-four patients (23.2%) died during a 10.4 years median follow-up. Depressive symptoms (BDI ≥ 10) increased all-cause mortality risk (HR = 2.52 [1.35-4.71], p = .004), even after adjusting for confounders (HR = 2.95 [1.50-5.80], p = .002). CAV data were available for 156 patients. During a 9.9 years median follow-up, 51 patients (32.7%) developed CAV or revascularization of which 8 received at least a second revascularization, 3 were re-transplanted, and 9 died from CAV-related causes. Analysis showed a significant increased CAV-risk among depressed patients (HR = 2.27 [1.10-4.69], p = .026), even in adjusted models (HR = 2.25 [1.01-4.98, p = .047).CONCLUSION:
Depressive symptoms at 1-year post-HTx unfavorably impact mortality and CAV, highlighting the need for interventions.Key words
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Heart Transplantation
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Heart Diseases
Type of study:
Diagnostic_studies
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Etiology_studies
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Observational_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
Language:
En
Journal:
Gen Hosp Psychiatry
Year:
2021
Document type:
Article
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