background: hypertension is one of the most important determinants of death due to vascular damage and is fast emerging as a high burden disease in india. however, its documentation is poor in the country. this study aims to estimate the rate and the causal pattern of mortality in a cohort of people with high blood pressure as compared to normotensives. methods: the study setting is varkkala, a...

Depression is an illness that kills. The links between depression and medical illness are well established and bi-directional, but evidence is mounting that depression increases mortality as well as morbidity in adults, particularly older adults. We examine the evidence that the increase in mortality in depression applies to all-cause mortality as well as cardiac mortality, and describe plausib...