Somatic symptoms of depression are prevalent in patients with acute coronary syndrome. The use of self-completed non-diagnostic questionnaires assessing symptoms of depression therefore is cautioned as patients may wrongly be identified as depressed. In patients with acute coronary syndrome depression is predicted by well-known psychosocial risk factors.

Ten per cent of MI-patients fulfilled diagnostic criteria for depression at discharge. There was a significant trend for increasing mortality with increasing severity of the depressive episode. All mortality among depressed patients was seen in patients with non-Q-wave infarction. These findings indicate future studies in selected subgroups of MI-patients.

Comparing the different methods, the rWTD algorithm performed best and led to unbiased estimates of prescribed doses and thus prescription durations and reduced misclassification on the individual level upon inclusion of covariates.

Posters, Sunday, 5 May 2002 obligatory, dominating and through. The typical syndromes were depressive, senestophobical and hysterical ones. The usage of HRT as monotherapy was proved to be effective and pathogenetical method of treating psychic disorders caused by menopause. In case of HRT being not effective, the various psychic disorders expressed mainly in depressive and phobical symptoms and to treat these disorders psychotherapy and additional psychotropic medicines should be applied.

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