Friday, January 31, 2014

Link Between Childhood Depression and Heart Disease Risk Identified

Depression during childhood may fuel the risk of adult cardiovascular disease, finds study. Depressed children are likely to be obese, smoke and be inactive that can lead to heart disease as early as their teen years. Further, researchers observed higher rates of heart disease in the parents of adolescents that had been depressed as children. "We were quite surprised to find that the parents of the affected adolescents were reporting ...

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