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Enduring untreated depression may be dangerous to your heart.
 
Researchers in Australia have discovered that people with depression often have significant excess nerve activity which increases heart rate and blood pressure. It is an inappropriate activation of the "flight or fight" response found when animals feel physically threatened.
 
The level of activity observed in this study is enough to trigger heart attacks.
 
Treatment with antidepressant medication reduces this risk as well as the symptoms of depression.

Treating depression may reduce heart attack risk -

Macleans - 4/4/2006 6:07 AM

Depressed people have an overactive "fight or flight" response that may increase their risk for heart disease, but the problem will respond to treatment with antidepressants, according to Australian researchers.
 
The team says their work may help explain why depressed people are more prone to heart disease than the popula
 
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