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Depression in diabetics rises with CHD risk.(Clinical Rounds)
DENVER -- Increased risk of coronary heart disease is significantly associated with stronger symptoms of depression in diabetic adults, Susan M. Barry-Bianchi, Ph.D., reported in a poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
Dr. Barry-Bianchi, of the Behavioural Cardiology Research Unit at the University Health Network in Toronto, and her colleagues recruited 353 patients for the study from an ongoing investigation, the Community Outreach and Health Risk Reduction Trial. The average patient age was 56 years.
The average score on the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) was 11.1 among the 184 patients at high risk for coronary heart disease (CHD), compared with 8.8 among the 169 patients at low risk for CHD, the investigators wrote.
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