Depression and Coronary Heart Disease: 2018 Position Paper of the ESC Working Group on Coronary Pathophysiology and Microcirculation

Overview

Journal Eur Heart J

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Cardiology & Vascular Diseases

Date 2019 Jan 31

PMID 30698764

Citations 123

Authors

Viola Vaccarino

Lina Badimon

J Douglas Bremner

Edina Cenko

Judit Cubedo

Maria Dorobantu

Dirk J Duncker

Akos Koller

Olivia Manfrini

Davor Milicic

Teresa Padro

Axel R Pries

Arshed A Quyyumi

Dimitris Tousoulis

Danijela Trifunovic

Zorana Vasiljevic

Cor De Wit

Raffaele Bugiardini

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