Combination of diabetes, depression ups death risk
The combination of diabetes and depression increases a person’s risk of dying early, beyond that linked to either condition alone, a new study suggests.
The implication, according to researchers, is that patients with diabetes should be routinely screened for depression.
They found that among more than 10,000 U.S. adults in a national health survey, those who had both diabetes and depression were more likely than those with either disorder alone to die over the next 8 years. They were 2.5 times more likely to die during the study period than were men and women without diabetes or depression. The findings are published in the June issue of the journal Diabetes Care.
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“Combination of diabetes, depression ups death risk”
Dear Sir! I have diabetes type 2, male and 72 years, but I.m often/constant depressed, sometimes I feel giving up and just die.I take lantus 40 ml novonorm 4×20 pluss tabletts for colestrol high bloodspres.ect etc. Can you please give me some idea how to find out about the feeling of depression ?
Have a nice day
Martin
I am once again sorry I am coming several years too late…and now this man may be dead, for all I know.
I would have responded to this man without a question. more so, he NEEDED a response more than anything!
What’s the point of throwing out these ‘loaded’ subjects and then abandoning a reader like this who obviously commented for powerful reasons and not just ‘chit chat’.
BTW, I have lived for 35 years with the above and i know more than anyone on the subject.
A plus B may be related to C (death) but in -between has a life of it’s own, and the equation is meaningless, and hardly says all about the patient.
I am not going to read your articles any longer, AND i may change my mind. I would perhaps do it just for a man like this, and to at least acknowledge his existance.
people like him do not exist, you know? They are alone, and discarded, AND they all think they are the only one. WHY? Well, first of all they don’t have AA meetings but even more so is the fault of these stupid diaBETES magazines like ‘Diabetes Forecast’ a diabetic is likely to pick up in the waiting room and whose only ‘line’ (what they care about, is) about the long distance runner who so perfectly manages his diabetes, and Miss America who is so positive and motivated about her diabetes, and all about success, and motivation and ….as if they are all on speed. Amen.
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