Can depression predict diabetes? Does having diabetes predict depression?The jury is still out on whether one of these conditions can cause the other. A number of teams presenting at the American Diabetes Association's 66th Scientific Sessions last week took a look at the relationship between diabetes and depression. Here are 2 highlights:
- Researchers from Rockville, MD, examined 3187 participants of the NIH's Diabetes Prevention Program. They found that depression did not predict diabetes. But taking antidepressant medication did.
- Depression Symptoms, Antidepressant Medicine Use and Risk of Developing Diabetes in Diabetes Prevention Program Participants
Abstract Number: 896-P - Researchers from Atlanta, GA examined 443 healthy adults without known diabetes or glucose intolerance (a form of prediabetes). Some were being treated for depression and some were not. They found the depressed patients did not have a higher incidence of glucose intolerance than nondepressed patients. In this case, having glucose intolerance did not predict depression.
- Unrecognized Glucose Intolerance Is NOT Associated with Depression
Abstract Number: 11-OR
To read the abstracts of these presentations, visit the ADA'a Abstract Search and enter their Abstract Number.
For a press release on these and other Session papers dealing with depression (pdf):
Antidepressants Associated with Increased Risk of Diabetes in Pre-Diabetics
To access the Sessions' other papers, visit the ADA's 66th Scientific Session home page
