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Women with diabetes, depression have increased death risk
NEWS IN BRIEF — Posted Jan. 10, 2011
Women age 54 to 79 with diabetes and depression are at least twice as likely to die from heart disease and other causes, according to a study in the January issue of Archives of General Psychiatry.
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health studied 78,282 women between those ages who participated in 2000 in the Nurses' Health Study, a long-running women's health study started with National Institutes of Health funding in 1976 (link).
Of those, 4,654 women died within six years. Women with depression were 44% more likely to die, and women with diabetes were 35% more likely to die than other women. Women with both illnesses were twice as likely to die than women with neither illness.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2011/01/10/prbf0110.htm.
