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Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 247-254 , March 2010

Social isolation and depression predict 12-month outcomes in the “waiting for a new heart study”

Presented in part at the 29th annual meeting of the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation, April 2009, Paris, France.

Heike Spaderna, PhD
- Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
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Nancy Role Mendell, PhD
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Daniela Zahn, MSc
- Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
Yifan Wang, MSc
- Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York
Judith Kahn, MD
- Department of Transplantation Surgery, Medical University, Graz, Austria
Jacqueline M.A. Smits, MD, PhD
- Eurotransplant International Foundation, Leiden, The Netherlands
Gerdi Weidner, PhD
- Psychological Institute, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany
- Department of Biology, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California

Distribution of 1-year outcomes by psychosocial risk group. Filled bars: isolated/depressed (n = 37); open bars: non-isolated/non-depressed (n = 47) [χ²(4) = 10.2, p < 0.04]. HTx, heart transplantatio

Distribution of 1-year outcomes by psychosocial risk group. Filled bars: isolated/depressed (n = 37); open bars: non-isolated/non-depressed (n = 47) [χ²(4) = 10.2, p < 0.04]. HTx, heart transplantation.
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