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Both diseases do not co-exist by chance: a meta-analysis published in <em>World Psychiatry<\/em> in October 2025 with 268 cohort studies and over 10 million depression patients puts the overall mortality risk at 2.1 times that of the general population &#8211; and shows that cardiovascular mortality is particularly prominent with a relative risk of 1.63 for natural causes of death. 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