The studies, presented at the meeting of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes here, add to a growing body of evidence linking depression and other mental disorders to diabetes risk. Symptoms of depression or psychological stress were associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes in men, but not in women, Swedish researchers reported A team from Canada said surveillance data suggest that "people with diabetes had a higher prevalence of all mental illnesses compared with people without diabetes."
The rate of affective and anxiety disorders was more than 30% higher in people with diabetes who were younger than 50 men with the highest level of depressive symptoms had a nearly four-fold risk for type 2 diabetes, In the Canadian study, Lauren C. Brown, a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, and colleagues,found people with diabetes
had a higher prevalence of all mental illnesses compared with people without diabetes, and this
finding was consistent over the examined time period." People with diabetes also had a more than a two-fold higher prevalence of non-organic psychoses than people without diabetes Given the increased rate of mental illness in people with diabetes, "research should focus on strategies to minimize complications and mortality in this population with comorbidity, " the authors wrote.
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