A recent study suggests that depression can increase the mortality rate for people living with Type 2 diabetes, according to a recent article in Diabetes in Control.
For the study, researchers looked at data from 4,184 patients with Type 2 diabetes in Washington state. They examined the instances of depression with both all-cause and cause-specific mortality. From the group, 581 patients died by the time the researchers followed-up with them. Of the dead, 88, or 17.8% had major depression. Another 65 (18.2%) were suffering minor depression. Causes of death were grouped into the following categories: cardiovascular disease, cancer, and a third group of ‘neither.’
Researchers concluded that patients suffering from diabetes and depression at the same time have a significantly increased risk of death beyond cardiovascular death. In various other studies not involving diabetes, depression has shown a link with cancer, HIV, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.
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