A recent study reveals just how much depression can increase the risk of heart disease. Researchers at the Levanger Hospital in Norway conducted a study of 63,000 participants to see how depression affects the heart.
Doctors have known that there is a link between depression and heart disease but they were not aware that the effects of depression on the heart were this severe. According to the Liberty Voice people who experienced moderate to severe symptoms of depression had a 40 percent increased risk of suffering from heart disease.
According to Nature World News Lise Tuset Gustad, an author of the study and an intensive care nurse at Levanger Hospital said, “We found a dose response relationship between depressive symptoms and the risk of developing heart failure. That means that the more depressed you feel, the more you are at risk,"
The study concluded that not only severe depression, but moderate depression as well can cause heart failure and heart disease.