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References for "Two-way street between depression and heart disease"

JUN 2009

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Glassman AH, et al. “Sertraline Treatment of Major Depression in Patients with Acute MI or Unstable Angina,” Journal of the American Medical Association (Aug. 14, 2002): Vol. 288, No. 6, pp. 701–09.

Grippo AJ, et al. “Stress, Depression and Cardiovascular Dysregulation: A Review of Neurobiological Mechanisms and the Integration of Research from Preclinical Disease Models,” Stress (January 2009), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1–21.

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