Title: One in five cardiac rehab patients are depressed, anxious, or stressed
(World News Science)

Sophia Antipolis, 10 October 2019: Patients with depression, anxiety or stress are more likely to drop out of cardiac rehabilitation, reports a study published on World Mental Health Day in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, a journal of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC).1 `Heart patients living with depression are more likely to feel despondent and hopeless, which reduces their ability to manage their symptoms,` said study author Angela Rao, of the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. `They may minimise successes and exaggerate failures, thereby reducing...