Treating Depression Cuts Diabetes Death

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Fri, 12-21-2007 - 11:30am

Treating Depression Cuts Diabetes Death Risk


Dec. 21 (HealthDay News) -- Treating depression can help extend the lives of people with diabetes, concludes a University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine study in the December issue of the journal Diabetes Care.


It found that providing depression care management to older adults with diabetes and depression reduced the risk of death over five years by about 50 percehttp://yourtotalhealth.ivillage.com/treating-depression-cuts-diabetes-death-risk.htmlnt.

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Sat, 12-22-2007 - 1:41pm

Amy,


This is so true. Diabetes makes depression worse and depression makes diabetes worse. Now if we only knew why this was the case, it would make such a difference in the lives of diabetics.


Thanks for posting this.



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