Using talk therapies, like cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) to alleviate depression and lower the risk of a heart attack sounds like a sensible idea doesn’t it?
UCL researchers decided to run with this idea and, in the first-of-its-kind study, they questioned whether psychological therapies, like CBT, could help lower the risk of cardiovascular disease later in life.
These diseases, such as stroke and heart disease, are the leading cause of death worldwide, and represent a third of all deaths, with 18.6 million people having died from this cause in 2019 globally.
