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Bernice Ruo1, John S Rumsfeld, Sharon Pipkin, Mary A Whooley.
Abstract
To examine the association between depressive symptoms and exercise capacity, we performed a cross-sectional study of 944 outpatients with stable coronary artery disease and found that the presence of depressive symptoms was independently associated with poor exercise capacity (<5 MET tasks achieved; adjusted odds ratio 1.8, 95% confidence interval 1.1 to 2.7, p = 0.01). Depressive symptoms should be considered in the differential diagnosis of poor exercise capacity.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15219515 PMCID: PMC2776667 DOI: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2004.03.035
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Cardiol ISSN: 0002-9149 Impact factor: 2.778