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Depression Among Heart Attack Survivors Can Be Deadly, Yet Is Often Ignored [KHN.org]

 

Clyde Boyce has been hospitalized 14 times in the past four years.

Boyce, 61, survived two strokes and five operations to unblock arteries around his heart, including three procedures in which doctors propped open his blood vessels with stents. He takes 18 pills a day and gets injections every two weeks with a powerful drug to lower cholesterol.

Yet the disease that came closest to taking Boyce’s life wasn’t a heart condition. It was depression, which led him to attempt suicide twice in the year after his first surgery.



[For more of this story, written by Liz Szabo, go to http://khn.org/news/depression...et-is-often-ignored/]

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