Glenn N. Levine, M.D., FAHA, master clinician and professor of medicine at Baylor College of Medicine, chief of the cardiology section at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center, both in Houston and chair of the writing committee for the AHA Scientific Statement: Psychological Health, Well-Being, and the Mind-Heart-Body Connection, offers perspective (via Zoom) on EPI Lifestyle 2021 presentation MP28.
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"The most important message we can convey to our patients is that if they have mental health issues, they are not alone. Millions and millions of patients, including patients with and without heart disease, have many mental illnesses that we have good treatments for. So they need to understand many other people have the same problems, and particularly during this COVID crisis, and that it is absolutely okay to discuss this with your doctors and to seek some mental health treatments. And in fact, there are very good treatments for this, involving sometimes drugs, but also a lot of other non-drug interventions for those who are concerned about that. It is paramount that they feel comfortable discussing this with us as healthcare professionals."