Depression and heart disease share common gene links: Study

Researchers have identified a gene module with 256 genes that are significantly correlated with both depression and cardiovascular diseases (CVD).

The identification can provide new joint biomarkers for depression and CVD, which can lead to the development of treatments simultaneously targeting the two.

Both depression and CVD pose a towering problem to global health. As per rough estimates, 280 million people across the globe suffer from depression, while around 620 million are diagnosed with CVD.