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Depression can cause type 2 diabetes: Study

AIMAN INAM

 

TORONTO: According to the latest study, depressed people with metabolic menace factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and harmful cholesterol levels are more than six times prone to develop type 2 diabetes.

“Emerging evidence suggests that depression in combination with behavioral and metabolic risk factors increases the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular conditions,” said the leader of the study, Norbert Schmitz.

The researchers have reported the results in the journal Molecular Psychiatry after analyzing 2,525 participants, aged between 40 and 69.

 

M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.