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DENVER -- Depression was nearly twice as common among adults who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, compared with adults who had either normal or impaired fasting plasma glucose levels and those with undiagnosed diabetes, Mirjam J. Knol said in a poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychosomatic Society.
The prevalence of depression was 17% in the 3,205 adults with a normal fasting plasma glucose (less than 5.6 mmol/L), 14.6% in the 534 subjects with impaired FPG (5.6-7.0 mmol/L), and 13.3% among 30 undiagnosed subjects who met the criteria for type 2 diabetes (FPG of at least 7.0 mmol/L).
By contrast, the prevalence of depression was 32.7% in the 49 patients who had been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, wrote Ms. Knol of ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Depression hits patients told of type 2 diabetes.(Clinical Rounds)