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Shared mechanisms between coronary heart disease and depression: findings from a large UK general population-based cohort.
Molecular psychiatry - 1 Jul 2020
Khandaker Golam M, Zuber Verena, Rees Jessica M B, Carvalho Livia, Mason Amy M, Foley Christopher N, Gkatzionis Apostolos, Jones Peter B, Burgess Stephen
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While comorbidity between coronary heart disease (CHD) and depression is evident, it is unclear whether the two diseases have shared underlying mechanisms. We performed a range of analyses in 367,703 unrelated middle-aged participants of European ancestry from UK Biobank, a population-based cohort study, to assess whether comorbidity is primarily due to genetic or environmental factors, and to test whether...
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