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5th September 20192nd October 2019Immo Weichert

Psychological intervention improves psychological symptoms and reduces cardiac mortality for people with Coronary Heart Disease (CHD)

This is a Cochrane review of thirty-five studies with 10,703 participants (median follow-up was 12 months). [1] Psychological interventions led to a reduction in cardiovascular mortality (relative risk 0.79, 95% confidence interval [CI] 0.63 to 0.98) and improved depressive symptoms (standardised mean difference [SMD] –0.27, 95% CI –0.39 to –0.15), anxiety (SMD –0.24, 95% CI…

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Psychiatric comorbidity increases opioid use and decreases survival in breast cancer patients

Approximately 40% of patients with breast cancer are estimated to have mental health problems. A recently published study in the Journal of Oncology Practice looked into the effect that psychiatric comorbidity has on the use of prescription opioids and survival in breast cancer patients. [1] This is a retrospective study that analysed a total of…

29th August 20195th September 2019Immo Weichert

Patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) that have psychiatric comorbidity have an increased risk of premature death.

A cohort study of Swedish register data of 86 670 individuals with ADHD found that the presence of psychiatric comorbidity was associated with an increased risk of premature death. [1] Early-onset psychiatric comorbidity was mainly associated with the risk of natural deaths whereas later-onset psychiatric comorbidity was mainly associated with death due to unnatural causes, including…