Effectiveness of sertraline in treatment of depression in a consecutive sample of patients with acute myocardial infarction: six month prospective study on outcome

Table 3 The outcome at the end of six months

Outcome of depression and cardiac events	TAU (n = 6)		Intervention (n = 11)
	n	%	n	%
Remission from depression*	2	33.3	10	90.9
Cardiac events within study period
Recurrent angina	4	66.7	5	45.5
Myocardial infarction	4	66.7	2	18.2
Re-hospitalizationfor cardiac reasons	5	83.3	4	36.4
Congestive Heart Failure	3	50.0	0	0.0
Death	1	16.7	0	0.0