Can depression lead to diabetes?

Filed in archive News , Research on December 25, 2007

Medical researchers have now seen a relationship between chronic depression and development of the adult-onset diabetes (type 2).




According to a new research led by Mercedes Carnethon, an epidemiologist and assistant professor of preventive medicine at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine:

"...even adults ages 65 and older who are chronically depressed are more likely to develop this inability to produce enough insulin to get rid of excess blood sugar.

...independent of weight and activity levels, the older adults who reported high depressive symptoms were 50 percent more likely to develop diabetes than those who did not."

Well I guess, because people with severe depression have inactive lives and may not watch what they eat - because of such lifestyle, they are at a higher risk of developing diabetes.

But better that there are data to support such association.

Find more details from The Chicago Tribune.