Influence of serotonin transporter gene polymorphism on depressive symptoms and new cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction

Nakatani, Daisaku; Sato, Hiroshi; Sakata, Yasuhiko; Shiotani, Issei; Kinjo, Kunihiro; Mizuno, Hiroya; Shimizu, Masahiko; Ito, Hiroshi; Koretsune, Yukihiro; Hirayama, Atsushi; Hori, Masatsugu; on behalf of the Osaka Acute Coronary Insufficiency Study (OACIS) Group,

doi:10.1016/j.ahj.2005.03.062

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Volume 150, Issue 4 , Pages 652-658, October 2005

Influence of serotonin transporter gene polymorphism on depressive symptoms and new cardiac events after acute myocardial infarction

Daisaku Nakatani, MD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Hiroshi Sato, MD, PhD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
- Reprint requests: Hiroshi Sato, MD, PhD, Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-2, Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan.
Yasuhiko Sakata, MD, PhD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Issei Shiotani, MD, PhD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Kunihiro Kinjo, MD, PhD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Hiroya Mizuno, MD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Masahiko Shimizu, MD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Hiroshi Ito, MD, PhD
- Sakurabashi Watanabe Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Yukihiro Koretsune, MD, PhD
- Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Atsushi Hirayama, MD, PhD
- Osaka Police Hospital, Osaka, Japan
Masatsugu Hori, MD, PhD
- Department of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
on behalf of the Osaka Acute Coronary Insufficiency Study (OACIS) Group

Received 30 August 2004; accepted 15 March 2005.

This work was supported by a grant-in-aid for University and Society Collaboration (15590743) from the Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (Tokyo, Japan) and by a research grant from the Japan Arteriosclerosis Prevention Fund.