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Patients with major depressive disorder appear to carry an elevated risk of incident coronary artery disease, heart failure, and stroke, while patients with established CVD, particularly those recovering from an acute coronary syndrome, frequently go on to develop clinically significant depressive symptoms that worsen prognosis independently of traditional risk factors. Several shared pathophysiological pathways help explain this dangerous liaison, among them autonomic dysfunction, dysregulation of the hypothalamic\u2013pituitary\u2013adrenal axis, chronic low-grade inflammation, platelet hyperreactivity, endothelial dysfunction, and unhealthy behavioral patterns that tend to accumulate once mood suffers. Despite this growing mechanistic understanding, translating this knowledge into effective treatment has proven far from straightforward: several randomized trials of antidepressants and psychotherapy have improved mood, yet they have not consistently reduced hard cardiovascular endpoints, with a handful of notable exceptions. This review brings together the current evidence on epidemiology, biological mechanisms, prognostic implications, and management strategies at the depression\u2013CVD interface, and closes by outlining priorities for future research and for integrated cardiac\u2013behavioral care.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm15186967","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,9]],"date-time":"2026-09-09T09:24:02Z","timestamp":1788945842000},"page":"6967","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["The Dangerous Liaison Between Depression and Cardiovascular Disease: A Narrative Review of Epidemiology, Mechanisms, and Clinical Management"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"15","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8732-4512","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Francesco","family":"Angeli","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences\u2014DIMEC, University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy"},{"name":"Cardiovascular Division, Morgagni-Pierantoni University Hospital, 47121 Forl\u00ec, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7971-8052","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Matteo","family":"Armillotta","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences\u2014DIMEC, University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy"},{"name":"Cardiovascular Division, Morgagni-Pierantoni University Hospital, 47121 Forl\u00ec, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8186-9717","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Luca","family":"Bergamaschi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences\u2014DIMEC, University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy"},{"name":"Cardiovascular Division, Morgagni-Pierantoni University Hospital, 47121 Forl\u00ec, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-4048-675X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carmine","family":"Pizzi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences\u2014DIMEC, University of Bologna, Via Giuseppe Massarenti 9, 40138 Bologna, Italy"},{"name":"Cardiovascular Division, Morgagni-Pierantoni University Hospital, 47121 Forl\u00ec, Italy"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,9]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3720","DOI":"10.1093\/eurheartj\/ehad191","article-title":"2023 ESC Guidelines for the management of acute coronary syndromes","volume":"44","author":"Byrne","year":"2023","journal-title":"Eur. 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