Heart Disease Outcomes Improve After Mental Health Treatments

Patients with heart disease as well as anxiety or depression who received mental health treatments tended to have a substantially lower risk of mortality as well as a reduced chance of hospital readmissions and emergency department (ED) visits, according to a cohort study in Journal of the American Heart Association. The results were based on about 1600 patients covered by Medicaid in Ohio who had been hospitalized for heart failure or coronary artery disease and were followed up for roughly 4 years.