The intriguing relationship between coronary heart disease and mental disorders

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Coronary heart disease (CHD) and mental illness are among the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Decades of research has revealed several, and sometimes surprising, links between CHD and mental illness, and has even suggested that both may actually cause one another. However, the precise nature of these links has not yet been clearly established. The goal of this paper, therefore, is to comprehensively review and discuss the state-of-the-art nature of the epidemiological and pathophysiological aspects of the bidirectional links between mental illness and CHD. This review demonstrates that there exists a large body of epidemiological prospective data showing that people with severe mental illness, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder, as a group, have an increased risk of developing CHD, compared with controls [adjusted hazard ratio (adjHR)=1.54; 95% CI: 1.30-1.82, P<0.0001]. Anxiety symptoms or disorders (Relative Risk (RR)=1.41, 95% CI: 1.23-1.61, P<0.0001), as well as experiences of persistent or intense stress or posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (adjHR=1.27, 95% CI: 1.08-1.49), although to a lesser degree, may also be independently associated with an increased risk of developing CHD. On the other hand, research also indicates that these symptoms/mental diseases are common in patients with CHD and may be associated with a substantial increase in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Finally, mental diseases and CHD appear to have a shared etiology, including biological, behavioral, psychological, and genetic mechanisms.

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Informa UK Limited

Subject

Biological Psychiatry,Psychiatry and Mental health

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