作者: Anil Gehi , Donald Haas , Sharon Pipkin , Mary A. Whooley
DOI: 10.1001/ARCHINTE.165.21.2508
关键词: Cross-sectional study 、 Depression (differential diagnoses) 、 Ambulatory 、 Odds ratio 、 Psychiatry 、 Medicine 、 Confounding 、 Confidence interval 、 Prospective cohort study 、 Internal medicine 、 Social support
摘要: Background Depression leads to adverse outcomes in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD). Medication nonadherence is a potential mechanism for the increased risk of CHD events associated depression, but it not known whether depression medication outpatients stable CHD. Methods We examined association between current major (assessed using Diagnostic Interview Schedule) and self-reported adherence cross-sectional study 940 Results A total 204 participants (22%) had depression. Twenty-eight (14%) depressed reported taking their medications as prescribed compared 40 (5%) 736 nondepressed (odds ratio [OR], 2.8; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.7-4.7; P = .01). The relationship persisted after adjustment confounding variables, including age, ethnicity, education, social support, measures cardiac severity (OR, 2.2; CI, 1.2-3.9; = .009 prescribed). Conclusions may contribute cardiovascular patients.