Doctors say heart patients often suffer from depression

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When news broke that publisher, philanthropist and former diplomat Philip Merrill had apparently killed himself, many expressed disbelief that a man who showed such vitality would take his own life.

However, according to experts, he was part of the demographic group most prone to suicide.

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