Depression is a common and serious comorbidity of cardiovascular disease (CVD) affecting one in three patients, among which women earlier and more frequently. Depression increases the risk for CVD development, acute events and mortality by >2 fold, independently of traditional risk factors, and constitutes an enormous socioeconomic burden in terms of morbidity, mortality and healthcare costs. Still, the patients at risk, disease trajectories and causative mechanisms involved remain unknown.

TO_AITION addresses the hypothesis that immune-metabolic dysregulation, occurring as a result of genetic, lifestyle and environmental risk factors ‘training’ innate immunity, drives low grade systemic inflammation leading to the development of CVD-depression comorbidity. 

TO_AITION will therefore rationally change our current understanding of the causative mechanisms driving CVD-depression comorbidity, unravelling patients’ complexity and improving their diagnosis, monitoring and management.

CONTACT

Dr. Evangelos Andreakos

Immunology Laboratory

Clinical, Experimental Surgery & Translational Research Center

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Biomedical Research Foundation Academy of Athens

4 Soranou Ephessiou St., 115 27 Athens, Greece

T +302106597338