Clinical impact of the temporal relationship between depression and type 2 diabetes: the Fremantle diabetes study phase II.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The clinical features of type 2 diabetes may differ depending on whether first depression episode precedes or follows the diagnosis of diabetes.

Methods

Type 2 patients from the observational community-based Fremantle Diabetes Study Phase II underwent assessment of lifetime depression using the Brief Lifetime Depression Scale (developed and validated for this study) supplemented by information on current depression symptoms (Patient Health Questionnaire, 9-item version) and use of antidepressants. Patients were categorized as never depressed (Group 1), having had depression before diabetes diagnosis (Group 2), diagnosed with depression and diabetes within 2 years of each other (Group 3) and having depression after diabetes diagnosis (Group 4).

Results

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SUBMITTER: Bruce DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3852722 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature