Courses of depressive symptoms and diabetes incidence among middle-aged and older adults: A prospective study.

ABSTRACT: Elevated depressive symptoms are a risk factor for diabetes. Although depressive symptoms can remit or emerge over time, little work has considered if courses of depressive symptoms are associated with incident diabetes. The purpose of this study was to explore associations between courses of depressive symptoms and incident diabetes. Data came from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (n = 4,978), which is an ongoing, cohort study of adults aged 50 years and older residing in private households in England. Depressive symptoms were measured biennially from 2002 to 2008. Participants were categorized into one of six groups: no depressive symptoms, remitted depressive symptoms, incident depressive symptoms with remission, incident depressive symptoms without remission, chronic depressive

SUBMITTER: Burns RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12002524 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature