Depression as a risk factor for cardiac mortality and morbidity: a review of potential mechanisms.

By R. Carney, K. Freedland, Gregory E. Miller, Allan S. Jaffe. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2002

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Health psychology: psychological adjustment to chronic disease. (2007, background): “Carney et al. (2002) reviewed 578 Stanton · Revenson · Tennen evidence for several behavioral (e.g., treatment nonadherence) and biological (e.g., inflammation) mechanisms that might explain how depression places individuals at risk for cardiac morbidity and mortality.”
Depression as a Risk Factor for Mortality in Patients With Coronary Heart Disease: A Meta-analysis (2004, background): “Despite the empiric evidence that depression increases the risk of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, there is no common accepted model that describes the underlying mechanisms (7,8).”
Validity of the Brief Patient Health Questionnaire Mood Scale (PHQ-9) in the general population. (2006, background): “Depressive symptoms are frequent coexisting problems in many medical illnesses and have been found to increase the risk of mortality and morbidity, such as in coronary heart diseases [3,4].”
The epidemiology of depression across cultures (2013, background): “A number of biologically plausible mechanisms have been proposed to explain the prospective associations of MDD with these disorders (21, 25, 28, 47, 116).”