ArticleBrain, behavior, and immunity2014
Depression, C-reactive protein and length of post-operative hospital stay in coronary artery bypass graft surgery patients.
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- Myocardial Damage and Inflammatory Response After Cardiac Surgical Revascularization on Beating and Arrested Heart.Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery · 2026Article
- Does Mental Distress Predict Cardiac Surgical Outcome?The Thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon · 2025Article
- Fibrinogen is an independent preoperative predictor of hospital length of stay among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass grafting.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2023Article
- The Effect of Listening to Holy Quran Recital on Pain and Length of Stay Post-CABG: A Randomized Control Trial.Critical care research and practice · 2023Article
- The pathophysiology and management of depression in cardiac surgery patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Review
- Depressive symptoms, perceived control and quality of life among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft: a prospective cohort study.BMC nursing · 2022Article
- The Association Between Depressive Symptoms and Length of Hospital Stay Following Coronary Artery Bypass Graft is Moderated by Perceived Control.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2021Article
- Predicting Postoperative Length of Stay for Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patients Using Machine Learning.International journal of general medicine · 2020Article
- Pre-surgical Caregiver Burden and Anxiety Are Associated with Post-Surgery Cortisol over the Day in Caregivers of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery Patients.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2019Article
- Pre-operative depression predicted longer hospital length of stay among patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft surgery.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2019Article
- Pre-surgical depression and anxiety and recovery following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2017Article
- Attachment anxiety predicts depression and anxiety symptoms following coronary artery bypass graft surgery.British journal of health psychology · 2016Article
- Depression 12-months after coronary artery bypass graft is predicted by cortisol slope over the day.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2016Article
- Pre-Operative Cognitive Functioning and Inflammatory and Neuroendocrine Responses to Cardiac Surgery.Annals of behavioral medicine : a publication of the Society of Behavioral Medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
This study aimed to explore the role of C-reactive protein (CRP) in mediating the association between greater pre-operative depression symptoms and longer post-operative length of stay in patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. We used a sample of 145 elective CABG patients and measured depression symptoms using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) prior to surgery and collected baseline measures of CRP. Participants were followed up during their in-hospital stay to measure early (1-3 days post-surgery) and persistent (4-8 days post-surgery) CRP responses to surgery. We found that compared with participants with low depression symptoms, those with elevated depression symptoms (BDI>10) prior to CABG were at increased odds of a hospital stay of greater than one week (OR 3.51, 95% CI 1.415-8.693, p=0.007) and that greater persistent CRP responses mediated this association. Further work is needed to explore the exact physiological pathways through which depression and CRP interact to affect recovery in CABG patients.
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