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Sep 2026
Cross-sectional independent associations of anxiety and depressive symptoms with cardiopulmonary exercise performance in treatment-naïve chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.
Higher anxiety and depressive symptom scores were independently associated with lower exercise capacity and worse ventilatory efficiency, with broader associations observed for depressive symptoms, which support greater attention to psychological symptoms during initial clinical assessment.
Xin-Xin Wang, Fu-Hua Qiu, Sai-lan Li et al.
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