Individuals with depression are more than twice as likely to have hospitalizations that might be preventable with timely outpatient medical care in the community, a new study finds. In addition, after being discharged from the hospital, individuals with depression were also more likely to return to the hospital within 30 days for the same conditions, the researchers found.Thanks Denmark.
Such preventable hospitalizations, also known as hospitalizations for ambulatory care-sensitive conditions, include exacerbations of common chronic conditions, such as diabetes, congestive heart failure, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and acute illnesses, such as bacterial pneumonia and urinary tract infections.
I would just like to point out:
Orexin deficiency is strongly correlated with depression.
Narcolepsy is commonly comorbid with many of those conditions.
The orexin receptor has just been linked to heart failure.
And ALL of those illnesses can be caused by strep colonization.
