"Severe depressive symptoms in patients with hypertension: Are antihypertensive medications implicated?"

Omar Salem GammohAbdelrahim AlqudahHanan Abu ShaikhAbdel-Ellah Al-Shudifat

Published in: International journal of psychiatry in medicine (2023)

Severe depressive symptoms were not associated with antihypertensive medications or other drugs used by hypertensive patients. Instead, age, diabetes, anxiety, and insomnia were the primary correlates of depression.

Keyphrases

hypertensive patients
depressive symptoms
blood pressure
sleep quality
social support
type diabetes
early onset
drug induced
cardiovascular disease