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Depression as a predictor for appropriate shocks among patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators

Results from the Triggers of Ventricular Arrhythmias (TOVA) study

William Whang, MD, MS^_*,_*, Christine M. Albert, MD, MPH^_*,, Samuel F. Sears, Jr, PhD, Rachel Lampert, MD, Jamie B. Conti, MD, Paul J. Wang, MD^||, Jagmeet P. Singh, MD, DPhil^_*, Jeremy N. Ruskin, MD^_*, James E. Muller, MD^_*, Murray A. Mittleman, MD, DrPH^¶ TOVA Study Investigators

^_* Cardiovascular Division, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
University of Florida Health Science Center, Gainesville, Florida
Yale-New Haven Medical Center, New Haven, Connecticut
^|| Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, California
^¶ Cardiovascular Division, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Time to first appropriate implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) discharge by presence of depression according to Centers for Epidemiologic Studies-Depression scale score 16 (p = 0.02, log-rank test).