Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 53-62 , January 2008

Depression profile in patients with and without chronic heart failure

  • Nicole Holzapfel

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany. Tel.: +49 6221 568654; fax: +49 6221 565749.
    • Both authors contributed equally to this paper.
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  • Thomas Müller-Tasch

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Beate Wild

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Jana Jünger

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Christian Zugck

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Andrew Remppis

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Wolfgang Herzog

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany
    • ,
  • Bernd Löwe

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany

Received 4 December 2006 ,Revised 10 April 2007 ,Accepted 13 April 2007.

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PII: S0165-0327(07)00133-4

doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2007.04.009

Journal of Affective Disorders
Volume 105, Issue 1 , Pages 53-62 , January 2008

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