Background Common mental health problems, such as depression and anxiety, are
estimated to affect up to 15% of the UK population at any one time, and health care systems …

In patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD), depression is common, persistent, and
associated with worse health-related quality of life, recurrent cardiac events, and mortality …

Depression is highly prevalent in cardiac patients, with 20% to 40% of patients meeting
criteria for major depressive disorder or experiencing an elevation in depressive symptoms …

Abstract Background Quality of life (QoL) is a multifactorial concept that assesses physical
and mental health. We prospectively studied the quality of life of patients undergoing …

Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG) might adversely affect the health status of the
patients, producing cognitive deterioration, with depression being the most common …

Study Design. Prospective observational study. Objective. To determine the typical trajectory
of pain during the first 6 months after spinal fusion surgery for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis …

INTRODUCTION: Cardiac surgery has been the intervention of choice in many cases of
cardiovascular diseases. Susceptibility to postoperative complications, cardiac rehabilitation …

BackgroundHip fracture is often complicated by depressive symptoms in older adults. We
sought to characterize trajectories of depressive symptoms arising after hip fracture and …

Chronic postsurgical pain (CPSP) after cardiac surgery represents a significant clinical
problem. The prevalence of CPSP varies widely between studies, but severe CPSP is …

Background This is an update of a Cochrane review previously published in 2014. Acute
postoperative pain is one of the most disturbing complaints in open heart surgery, and is …