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Major depression as well as other depressive disorders is commonly comorbid with other medical illnesses particularly chronic and systemic medical illnesses the co occurrence of the disorders is so common that it challenges our notions of the meaning of comorbidity and our desire to neatly separate psychiatric and medical illnesses. Depression major depressive disorder is a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel the way you think and how you act fortunately it is also treatable depression causes feelings of sadness and or a loss of interest in activities you once enjoyed. Depression is an important predictor of morbidity and mortality in patients with coronary disease particularly after myocardial infarction independent of previous cardiac history or cad severity depression also is associated with poor long term psychosocial outcomes the prevalence of major depre . Adults with chronic medical illness have a high prevalence of co morbid depression depression often goes undiagnosed leading to worsening health outcomes nurses are in key positions to advocate for screening and implementing evidence based interventions for depression in patients with co morbid medical illnesses