Article: Diabetes complicates depression and anxiety therapy: increased use of atypical antipsychotics brings weight, glucose metabolism, and lipid liabilities.(PRACTICAL PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY)

News reports of an epidemic of diabetes are not exaggerated: An estimated 21 million Americans are affected with the metabolic disorder.

Many will require psychiatric care. Diabetic patients are twice as likely as the general population to suffer from depression, and individuals with depression are at comparably higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Although anxiety disorders have been less studied in this regard, some surveys have found the prevalence of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) among people with diabetes to be 14%--well above the norm--with increased rates of specific phobias as well. It has been widely publicized that schizophrenia and some drugs ...

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