Diabetes complications and comorbidities: Mental health

COVID-19 restrictions do not significantly impact glycated hemoglobin levels in individuals with type 2 diabetes, but those with poor psychologic wellbeing may experience worsening glycemic control, suggest findings from an Italian study.

Findings from a modeling study suggest that community-based exercise and cognitive behavioral therapy interventions for depression in people with type 2 diabetes are cost-effective in the long-term.

Researchers find that people with recurrent diabetic ketoacidosis have an increased rate of mental health problems such as diabetes distress and personality disorder.

Negative emotional experience and skill at regulating emotions are associated with diabetes distress in adults with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, researchers report.

Women with type 1 diabetes and a history of disordered eating spend markedly more time in level 2 hyperglycemia than women without eating disorders, show the results of a small continuous glucose monitoring study.

The increased risk for dementia associated with type 2 diabetes is strongest for vascular dementia, researchers have reported at the virtual 56th EASD Annual Meeting.

A collaborative care intervention delivered at urban diabetes clinics improves depressive symptoms and cardiometabolic outcomes among people with comorbid diabetes and depression in India, shows the INDEPENDENT trial.

Data from the AGES-Reykjavik Study support accumulating cerebral small vessel disease as a contributing factor to the increased risk for depression in people with type 2 diabetes.

Improved diabetes knowledge and reduced distress both contribute to the positive effects of diabetes distress interventions on glycemic outcomes, say researchers.

A substantial proportion of people with diabetes experience negative psychologic consequences, and these issues are predicted by a number of factors including gaps in person-centered care, insulin use, and complications, suggest findings from a Danish national survey.

A Mendelian randomization analysis supports a direct effect of major depressive disorder on type 2 diabetes risk, but produces no evidence for the reverse scenario.

A Mendelian randomization analysis supports a causal role of high blood glucose in unspecified dementia, but not in Alzheimer’s disease or vascular dementia.

The presence of diabetes distress and body dissatisfaction may warn of a high risk for disordered eating in adolescents with type 1 diabetes, show data from the Diabetes MILES Youth–Australia study.

The quality of care among older adults with diabetes declines with increasing comorbidity and is particularly low for those with both osteoarthritis and major depression, population-based study data show.

Adolescents who undergo bariatric surgery do not as a rule experience resolution of mental health problems, say researchers.

Symptoms of anxiety are associated with an increased risk for progression from prediabetes to type 2 diabetes, indicate findings from a population-based study.

The effectiveness of interventions to increase objectively measured physical activity in people at high risk for developing type 2 diabetes declines in line with symptoms of depression within the normal range, say researchers.

A telephone-delivered, collaborative goal-setting intervention can significantly reduce depressive symptoms relative to usual care in people with uncontrolled diabetes and clinically significant depression, research shows.

Approximately one-third of adolescents and young adults with type 1 diabetes display disturbed eating behavior that may be linked to worsening glycemic control and increasing depressive symptoms over time, research shows.

Young people who deliberately omit insulin to either lose weight or prevent weight gain report worse psychosocial functioning, particularly depressive symptoms, than those who have never skipped a dose for this reason, study data show.