Diabetic Women can be victim of Depression during and After Pregnancy:

[Ankit Dabda]

I recently came to know about this latest news.

Katy Backes Kozhimannil,(M.P.A., Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston) and her team recently conducted a study to find out the relationship between the depression and diabetic women during their pregnancy period.

Katy Backes Kozhimannil is a Pharmaceutical Policy Research Fellow in the Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention.

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Diabetics who remain under constant depression [a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity] are at higher risk of other health problems such as kidney failure, blindness, stroke and heart attack, reveals a new research.

The researchers at University of Washington found that chronic depression [a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity] was linked to a 36 percent increased risk of micro-vascular [pertaining to blood vessels] complications like severe kidney disease and loss of sight in patients with diabetes and depression, in contrast to diabetics without depression.

The research also revealed a 25 percent higher risk of macro-vascular problems like stroke or myocardial infarction [Also called heart attack, occurs when one of more regions of the heart muscle experience a severe or prolonged decrease in oxygen supply caused by a blocked blood flow to the heart muscle.] --interruption of blood to the heart resulting in heart attack--in such patients.

3723 people studied
The Pathways Epidemiological Follow-up Study registered 4,632 patients with diabetes between the years 2000 and 2002.

The research team from University of Washington traced these patients in the years 2005 and 2007 and finally examined 3723 patients with type 2 diabetes [Also called non-insulin dependent diabetes; a condition in which the pancreas produces so little insulin that the body cannot use the blood glucose as energy; can often be controlled through meal plans and physical activity plans, and diabetes pills or insulin.] .

The research team analyzed health records, diagnostic policies, medical prescriptions and death certificates of the patients to validate alterations in their health over a span of five years.

The team found that diabetics with no prior warning signs of micro-vascular or macro-vascular problems increased their risk of falling prey to such diseases, owing to depression.

The team also established that diabetic patients with depression tended to be younger, obese and suffering from other problems too, compared to diabetics without depression.

People with major depression were more likely women and smokers, the study revealed.

The researchers advised further research for concrete findings though.

“Further research is needed to clarify the underlying biological mechanism for the association between depression and complications of diabetes, and to test interventions which might be effective in lowering the risk of complications among patients who have both diabetes and depression,” said lead author Elizabeth Lin, MD, Group Health Research Institute, Seattle, Washington.

[maddy01]

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The researchers at University of Washington found that chronic depression [a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity] was linked to a 36 percent increased risk of micro-vascular [pertaining to blood vessels] complications like severe kidney disease and loss of sight in patients with diabetes and depression, in contrast to diabetics without depression.

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