Diabetes complications and comorbidities: Depression

An increase in depressive symptoms around the time of a new diabetes diagnosis in older adults is associated with increasing difficulty in performing daily activities such as shopping, walking, and dressing, US researchers report.

Screening for anxiety and depression does not improve the ability of existing tools to predict diabetes risk, despite being predictive in isolation, report researchers.

A bidirectional relationship between depression and severe dysglycemia exists among older people with type 1 diabetes, indicating a need for increased vigilance in this population.

UK research suggests that depressive symptoms have little impact on glycemic control in patients recently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, but could be linked to macrovascular complications.

High variability in glycemic control may be associated with depression in elderly people with type 2 diabetes, according to a large observational study.

The ADA Presidents Oral Session closed the 2017 American Diabetes Association 77th Scientific Sessions.

Anxiety is an independent predictor of mortality in patients with diabetes, yet has a mitigating effect on the high mortality risk associated with depression, show results from a population-based study.

Researchers say that physicians should be alert for worsening depression in patients with type 1 diabetes, after finding it to be associated with poor metabolic control.

Depression and diabetes-related distress are associated with poor medication adherence, say researchers.