Abstract
To examine the association between depressive symptoms and exercise capacity, we performed
a cross-sectional study of 944 outpatients with stable coronary artery disease and
found that the presence of depressive symptoms was independently associated with poor
exercise capacity (<5 MET tasks achieved; adjusted odds ratio 1.8, 95% confidence
interval 1.1 to 2.7, p = 0.01). Depressive symptoms should be considered in the differential
diagnosis of poor exercise capacity.
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Publication history
Accepted:
March 19,
2004
Received in revised form:
March 19,
2004
Received:
December 1,
2003
Footnotes
☆This work was supported by grants from the Department of Veterans Affairs (Epidemiology Merit Review Program), Washington, DC, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Generalist Physician Faculty Scholars Program, Princeton, New Jersey), the American Federation for Aging Research (Paul Beeson Faculty Scholars in Aging Research Program), New York, New York, and the Ischemia Research and Education Foundation, San Francisco, California. Drs. Ruo and Whooley are supported by Research Career Development Awards from the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Service. None of these funding sources had any role in the collection of data, interpretation of results, or preparation of this report.
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