Table 1.
Group description – demographic characteristics, vascular risk factors and depression characteristics for depressed myocardial infarction, primary care and mental health care patients.
Figure 1.
Group differences in cognitive/affective and somatic symptoms, comparing MI patients with first onset depression, depressed primary care and mental health care patients.
* Means adjusted for age, sex and somatic symptom levels different at p<0.05, Bonferroni corrected.
Figure 2.
The three different symptom profiles of depression established by latent class analysis.
Figure 3.
Percentage of class assignment for depressed myocardial infarction, primary care and mental health care patients.
N.B. Class 1: Severe, Class 2: Low cognitive – high sadness, Class 3: Low cognitive – high anhedonia.
Table 2.
Odds ratio of symptom profile class membership in depressed MI patients compared to patients from primary and mental health care, controlled for age and sex.
Figure 4.
The hypothesized associations between age of depression onset, myocardial infarction and cognitive/affective symptom levels in depressed patients.
N.B. White arrows denote a positive association and black arrows denote a negative association. Cognitive vulnerability is included as a potentially influential but in our study unmeasured factor.