Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 38, Issue 5 , Pages 392-397 , September 2009

Self-care and depression in patients with chronic heart failure

  • Nicole Holzapfel, MA

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Germany
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Nicole Holzapfel, MA, Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 410, 69120 Heidelberg
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  • Bernd Löwe, MD, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf and Hamburg-Eilbek (Schön Clinics), Germany
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  • Beate Wild, PhD

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Hugo A. Katus, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Markus Haass, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Theresien Hospital Mannheim, Germany
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  • Bernhard Rauch, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Medical Hospital Ludwigshafen, Germany
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  • Jana Jünger, MD

      Affiliations

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

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychosomatic and General Internal Medicine, Medical Hospital, University of Heidelberg, Germany
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  • Thomas Müller-Tasch, MD

      Affiliations

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

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 The study was supported by the German Heart Failure Network, funded by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), FKZ 01GI0205.

PII: S0147-9563(08)00216-1

doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2008.11.001

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 38, Issue 5 , Pages 392-397 , September 2009

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