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Article: Diabetes, depression link remains muddled.(Metabolic Disorders)
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- Family Practice News
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- September 1, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- Which comes first, diabetes or depression?
The data on this temporal relationship are mixed. Although findings from previous studies suggest that depression precedes diabetes, findings from another investigation, presented at the annual scientific sessions of the American Diabetes Association, propose that there is no time correlation between the two diagnoses.
This chicken-or-egg question is important because depression has a reported prevalence ranging from 11% to 33% in patients with diabetes, which is twice as high as it is in people without diabetes, said Dr. Lawrence S. Phillips, professor of medicine in the division of endocrinology ...