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The Relationship of Diabetes with Depression
Presence of diabetes in patients with depression and symptoms of depression more often than in the entire population. This association may be due to increased risk of depression in patients with diabetes, increased risk of diabetes in patients with depression, or both.
Several factors associated with depression symptoms, including obesity, healthy lifestyle (sedentary, high-calorie, etc.). And activation of the neuroendocrine system and inflammatory responses may cause insulin resistance and diabetes onset. Furthermore, the diagnosis of diabetes or suffer the burden of its complications can also cause depression.
One study conducted repeated measurements of fasting blood to assess whether depressive symptoms predict the occurrence of diabetes mellitus type 2 (dm2) and whether participants with T2DM are likely to present significant depressive symptoms and compared with the population without neither of the two at the beginning of the disease. Read the rest of this entry »