Women are twice as likely as men to experience depression, and that statistic holds true for female cardiac patients. Linking heart disease and depression, the American Heart Association recently recommended that all cardiac patients be screened for depression. Dr. Kim Lebowitz, director and founder of the Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, discusses with host Dr. Lauren Streicher the new field of cardiac psychology and how doctors can screen their cardiac patients for the signs and symptoms of depression.