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Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group ReportKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, 622 W 168th St, PH9 Center, Room 941, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 68:645-50. 2006..The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute convened an interdisciplinary working group of experts to develop recommendations for the assessment and treatment of depression in patients with coronary heart disease (CHD)...- Definitions and distinctions among depressive syndromes and symptoms: implications for a better understanding of the depression-cardiovascular disease associationKarina W Davidson
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 67:S6-9. 2005..CONCLUSION: Examining the predictive ability of these key distinctions of depression for acute coronary syndrome recurrence would be of benefit to future research in this field... - Hospitalization cost offset of a hostility intervention for coronary heart disease patientsKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY10032, USA
J Consult Clin Psychol 75:657-62. 2007..00(dollars) spent on therapy, there is an approximate savings of 2.00(dollars) in hospitalization costs in the following 6 months. These findings support the hospitalization cost offset of hostility-reduction in CHD patients... - Developing an evidence base in clinical psychologyKarina W Davidson
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Clin Psychol 62:259-71. 2006.... 
Emotional predictors and behavioral triggers of acute coronary syndromeKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10032, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 75:S15-9. 2008..Despite these findings, the use of emotional or behavioral information to identify persons at high risk for imminent ACS to facilitate such patient identification...- Psychological theories of depression: potential application for the prevention of acute coronary syndrome recurrenceKarina W Davidson
Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
Psychosom Med 66:165-73. 2004..The ways in which psychological proximal cause theories are relevant--or irrelevant--for both the treatment of depressive symptoms in post-ACS patients and the prevention of ACS recurrence are discussed... - Standardizing the comparison of systolic blood pressure vs. pulse pressure for predicting coronary heart diseaseKarina W Davidson
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Clin Hypertens (Greenwich) 8:411-3. 2006..However, when using an increase of 1 SD, the RR associated with SBP was larger than for PP. Although both are predictors, the authors conclude that SBP has a larger RR than PP for coronary heart disease events... - Relation of inflammation to depression and incident coronary heart disease (from the Canadian Nova Scotia Health Survey [NSHS95] Prospective Population Study)Karina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, NY, USA
Am J Cardiol 103:755-61. 2009..In conclusion, increased inflammation explained only a very small proportion of the association between depression and incident CHD... - Assessment and treatment of depression in patients with cardiovascular disease: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working group reportKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA, and Centre Hospitalier de l'Universite de Montreal Research Center, Quebec, Canada
Ann Behav Med 32:121-6. 2006 - Depression and cardiovascular disease: selected findings, controversies, and clinical implications from 2009Karina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY 10032, USA
Cleve Clin J Med 77:S20-6. 2010..This article reviews these selected provocative findings and controversies from our search and explores their clinical implications... - Anger expression and risk of coronary heart disease: evidence from the Nova Scotia Health SurveyKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University Medical Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, 622 W 168th St, New York, NY 10032, USA
Am Heart J 159:199-206. 2010..This study examines whether distinct types of anger expression differentially predict incident CHD... - Association of anhedonia with recurrent major adverse cardiac events and mortality 1 year after acute coronary syndromeKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York 10032, USA
Arch Gen Psychiatry 67:480-8. 2010.... - Don't worry, be happy: positive affect and reduced 10-year incident coronary heart disease: the Canadian Nova Scotia Health SurveyKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, 622 West 168th Street, PH9 Room 948, New York, NY 10032, USA
Eur Heart J 31:1065-70. 2010..We examined whether higher levels of positive affect are associated with a lower risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) in a large prospective study with 10 years of follow-up... - Enhanced depression care for patients with acute coronary syndrome and persistent depressive symptoms: coronary psychosocial evaluation studies randomized controlled trialKarina W Davidson
Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, PH9 Center, 622 W 168th St, Room 948, New York, NY 10032, USA
Arch Intern Med 170:600-8. 2010..This study was conducted to determine the acceptability and efficacy of enhanced depression treatment in patients with ACS... - Is depression after an acute coronary syndrome simply a marker of known prognostic factors for mortality?Ian M Kronish
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, One Gustave L Levy Place, Box 1087, New York, NY 10029, USA
Psychosom Med 71:697-703. 2009.... - Depression vulnerabilities in patients with different levels of depressive symptoms after acute coronary syndromesNina Rieckmann
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Psychother Psychosom 75:353-61. 2006..Longitudinal studies are required before causality and treatment implications can be addressed... - Incident and recurrent major depressive disorder and coronary artery disease severity in acute coronary syndrome patientsJeanne Goodman
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Psychiatr Res 42:670-5. 2008..Possible mechanisms for differing CAD severity by angiogram between these two subtypes are proposed and implications for prognosis and treatment are discussed... - Course of depressive symptoms and medication adherence after acute coronary syndromes: an electronic medication monitoring studyNina Rieckmann
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 48:2218-22. 2006..32, p = 0.016). CONCLUSIONS: Diagnosis and treatment of depressive symptoms may improve medication adherence in patients after ACS... - The role of angry rumination and distraction in blood pressure recovery from emotional arousalWilliam Gerin
Columbia University NY Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Psychosom Med 68:64-72. 2006..Cardiovascular recovery of prestress baseline blood pressure has been implicated as a possible additional determinant of sustained blood pressure elevation. We hypothesize that angry ruminations may slow the recovery process... - Role of depression and inflammation in incident coronary heart disease eventsDaichi Shimbo
The Behavioral Cardiovascular Health and Hypertension Program, Columbia University Medical Center, USA
Am J Cardiol 96:1016-21. 2005..In this review, the publications examining the relations among depression, inflammation, and CHD events are discussed... - The medication Adherence and Blood Pressure Control (ABC) trial: a multi-site randomized controlled trial in a hypertensive, multi-cultural, economically disadvantaged populationWilliam Gerin
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY, USA
Contemp Clin Trials 28:459-71. 2007..We present an overview of the study design, details of the administrative structure of the study and a description of clinical site recruitment, patient recruitment, and follow-up assessments... - The epidemiology, pathophysiology, and management of psychosocial risk factors in cardiac practice: the emerging field of behavioral cardiologyAlan Rozanski
Division of Cardiology, St Luke s Roosevelt Hospital Center, and the Department of Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York, USA
J Am Coll Cardiol 45:637-51. 2005.... - Treating persistent depressive symptoms in post-ACS patients: the project COPES phase-I randomized controlled trialMatthew M Burg
Behavioral Cardiovascular Health and Hypertension Program, Columbia University School of Medicine, New York City, NY 10032, United States
Contemp Clin Trials 29:231-40. 2008..These analyses will provide important data to inform subsequent clinical trials with this population... - Mental disorders and cardiovascular disease among adults in the United StatesRenee D Goodwin
Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, 722 West 168 th Street, Room 1706, New York, NY 10032, United States
J Psychiatr Res 43:239-46. 2009..Therefore, it remains unclear whether: (a) both anxiety and depressive disorder are associated with CVD; (b) these associations are generalizable to adults in the community... 
Franz Volhard lecture: should doctors still measure blood pressure? The missing patients with masked hypertensionThomas G Pickering
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY 10032, USA
J Hypertens 26:2259-67. 2008..Ambulatory BP monitoring is the best established technique for doing this, but home monitoring may be applicable in the future...- Assessment of the white-coat effectWilliam Gerin
Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York 10032, USA
J Hypertens 24:67-74. 2006..Resting levels taken in the clinic may also be elevated, and will therefore underestimate the WCE... - War-related stress exposure and mortality: a meta-analysisDavid Roelfs
Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
Int J Epidemiol 39:1499-509. 2010..Domestic and international wars continue to be pervasive in the 21st century. This study summarizes the effects of war-related stress on all-cause mortality using meta-analyses and meta-regressions... - Persistent depressive symptoms lower aspirin adherence after acute coronary syndromesNina Rieckmann
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Am Heart J 152:922-7. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Poor medication adherence--a potentially modifiable behavior--may contribute to the high mortality risk observed in patients with persistent symptoms of depression after ACS... - Depressive symptoms and all-cause mortality in unstable angina pectoris (from the Coronary Psychosocial Evaluation Studies [COPES])William Whang
Center for Behavioral Cardiovascular Health, Columbia University Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Am J Cardiol 106:1104-7. 2010..In conclusion, our results confirm and extend previous evidence linking depression to worse outcomes in UA and suggest that interventions that address depression may be worth examining across the spectrum of risk in ACS... - Persistent depression affects adherence to secondary prevention behaviors after acute coronary syndromesIan M Kronish
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
J Gen Intern Med 21:1178-83. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: Persistently depressed patients were less likely to adhere to behaviors that reduce the risk of recurrent ACS. Differences in adherence to these behaviors may explain in part why depression predicts mortality after ACS... - Association between troponin I levels and mortality in stable hemodialysis patientsMichael E Farkouh
Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, New York, USA
Am J Med 114:224-6. 2003 - Behavioral cardiology --has its time finally arrived?Thomas Pickering
Zena and Michael A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Mt Sinai J Med 70:101-12. 2003..These barriers include poor compliance by the patient, lack of skill in providing effective interventions by the health care provider, and lack of incentives within the health care system, particularly reimbursement... - Exaggerated serotonin-mediated platelet reactivity as a possible link in depression and acute coronary syndromesDaichi Shimbo
Cardiovascular Biology Research Laboratory, New York, New York 10029, USA
Am J Cardiol 89:331-3. 2002 - Depressive symptoms are independently predictive of carotid atherosclerosisDonald C Haas
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Cardiol 95:547-50. 2005..Adjusting for baseline cardiovascular risk factors, participants with elevated depression scores at baseline were >2 times as likely as those with no depressive symptoms to have carotid plaque... - Limitations of current validation protocols for home blood pressure monitors for individual patientsWilliam Gerin
The Zena and Michael A Wiener Cardiovascular Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA
Blood Press Monit 7:313-8. 2002..We assessed the adequacy of existing British Hypertension Society (BHS) and Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) validation standards for automatic blood pressure monitoring devices... - A primer on current evidence-based review systems and their implications for behavioral medicineKarina W Davidson
College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
Ann Behav Med 28:226-38. 2004..This group of behavioral medicine experts recommends that the Cochrane Collaboration review behavioral medicine interventions... - Aspirin adherence, aspirin dosage, and C-reactive protein in the first 3 months after acute coronary syndromeIan M Kronish
Division of General Internal Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA
Am J Cardiol 106:1090-4. 2010..The association between aspirin adherence and CRP level was not attenuated by controlling for other risk-reducing behaviors. In conclusion, a strong association was found between aspirin adherence and the CRP level after an ACS... - Persistent depressive symptoms after acute coronary syndrome are associated with compromised white matter integrity in the anterior cingulate: a pilot studyMichael A Rapp
Department of Psychiatry, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA michael rapp charite de
Psychother Psychosom 79:149-55. 2010..However, the neurobiological correlates of post-ACS depressive symptoms have not yet been studied... - Work stress and hypertension: a call from research into interventionPaul J Mills
Ann Behav Med 28:1-3. 2004 - Anxiety disorders and comorbid medical illnessPeter P Roy-Byrne
University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA 98195, USA
Gen Hosp Psychiatry 30:208-25. 2008..To provide an overview of the role of anxiety disorders in medical illness... - Practical behavioral trials to advance evidence-based behavioral medicineRussell E Glasgow
Kaiser Permanente, Penrose, Colorado, USA
Ann Behav Med 31:5-13. 2006..We discuss potential challenges and objections to PBTs and conclude by providing recommendations for the design, conduct, reporting, and review of practical trials... - Health psychology and scientific consensus: the case of depression and cardiovascular diseaseKarina W Davidson
Health Psychol 26:519-20. 2007 - Toward a causal model of cardiovascular responses to stress and the development of cardiovascular diseaseAmy R Schwartz
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Psychosom Med 65:22-35. 2003.... - Adaptive defense use and resting blood pressure in a population-based sampleMichael Wm MacGregor
University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
J Psychosom Res 55:531-41. 2003..Older women with a less ADP score had higher diastolic blood pressure. CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest the continued investigation of defense use and blood pressure... - Letter by Kronish et al regarding article, "Residual arachidonic acid-induced platelet activation via an adenosine diphosphate-dependent but cyclooxygenase-1- and cyclooxygenase-2-independent pathway: a 700-patient study of aspirin resistance"Ian M Kronish
Circulation 115:e45; author reply e46. 2007 - Invitation to a dialogue between researchers and clinicians about evidence-based behavioral medicineBonnie Spring
Department of Psychology, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL 60607, USA
Ann Behav Med 30:125-37. 2005..Evidence-based behavioral medicine (EBBM) aims to improve the process through which best scientific research evidence can be obtained and translated into best clinical decisions regarding behavioral treatments to improve health... - The clinical impact of negative psychological states: expanding the spectrum of risk for coronary artery diseaseLaura D Kubzansky
Department of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Psychosom Med 67:S10-4. 2005..The association between even mild depressive symptoms and sequelae of cardiac disease raises the following question: Is the spectrum of psychological factors associated with cardiac disease greater than previously recognized?.. - Depressive symptoms have an independent, gradient risk for coronary heart disease incidence in a random, population-based samplePaul J Rowan
The Houston Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Veterans Affairs South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Centers, Houston, TX, USA
Ann Epidemiol 15:316-20. 2005..Few population-based, prospective studies have tested a gradient risk for depressive symptoms on CHD incidence... - The use of defenses and physician health care costs: are physician health care costs lower in persons with more adaptive defense profiles?Michael William MacGregor
Department of Psychology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Sask, Canada
Psychother Psychosom 72:315-23. 2003..The objective of the present study was to determine if persons who use more adaptive defenses have lower physician health care costs compared to those who use less adaptive defenses... - Evidence-based behavioral medicine: what is it and how do we achieve it?Karina W Davidson
Mt Sinai School of Medicine, USA
Ann Behav Med 26:161-71. 2003.... - Depression as another possible explanation for worse outcomes in myocardial infarction during off-hoursDonald C Haas
J Am Coll Cardiol 42:2172; author reply 2172-3. 2003 - New policy on reports of randomized clinical trialsRobert M Kaplan
Ann Behav Med 27:81. 2004
Research Grants
- Controlled Randomized Anger Reduction in HypertensivesKarina Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2005..abstract_text> ..
- CHD Incidence: Depression & Inflammation RiskKarina Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2006..We propose to assay plasma samples for CRP, IL-6 and ICAM-1 and then to statistically model the associations among depression, inflammation and CHD incidence. ..
- Improving Med Adherence in Post-ACS Patients: Phase 1B Dose-Finding RCTKarina Davidson; Fiscal Year: 2007..This research will allow my trainees and me to conduct an early phase behavioral trial, interact extensively with nonadherent patients and cardiologists, so as to better understand this challenging behavioral problem. ..