“…A CES-D score !16 is widely used to diagnose minor depression in healthy and CVD populations (Anstey & Luszcz, 2002;Penninx et al, 1999;Shinar et al, 1986;Weissman, Sholomskas, Pottenger, Prusoff, & Locke, 1977) and has high predictive validity for acute coronary syndrome events and for mortality in initially healthy patients (Anstey & Luszcz, 2002;Lesperance, Frasure-Smith, Juneau, & Theroux, 2000;Rowan, Haas, Campbell, MacLean, & Davidson, 2005;Rugulies, 2002). Similarly, a CES-D score !16 has been frequently used in patients with type 2 diabetes to assess depressive symptoms (Saydah, Brancati, Golden, Fradkin, & Harris, 2003;Vickers et al, 2006). Patients with diabetes exceeding 15 points on the CES-D scale had a 54% increased mortality, after controlling for sociodemographic, lifestyle and health-status variables (Zhang et al, 2005).…”