Inactivity a risk to depressed heart patients

"The main reason depressed heart disease patients are at higher risk for further heart trouble is because they exercise less and adopt other unhealthy habits, researchers said last week. In their study of 1,017 heart disease patients whose conditions were stable, the 20 percent who were depressed were at significantly higher risk of cardiovascular problems. Depression is about three times more common among heart attack patients than in the general population, and depression increases the risk of a second heart attack, earlier research showed."