Severity of depression, anxious distress and the risk of type 2 diabetes - a population-based cohort study in Sweden.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous studies assessing the relationship between depression and diabetes mellitus did not consider the severity of depression. In the present study we assessed the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) among people with various severity of depression.

Methods

This prospective longitudinal cohort study included 9,936 individuals residing in Stockholm County, Sweden who responded to the baseline questionnaire in 1998-2000. The participants were followed from 1 year after the baseline up to 2015 for the occurrence of T2DM, using the National Patient Register, Swedish Prescribed Drug Registers, and Cause of Death Register. Depression and anxious distress were assessed using psychiatric rating scales and defined according to the Diagnostic and Statistic

SUBMITTER: Deleskog A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712830 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature