Depression may compound the risk of developing type 2 diabetes in people with such early warning signs of metabolic disease as obesity, high blood pressure and unhealthy cholesterol levels, according to researchers from McGill University, l'Université de Montréal, the Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal and the University of Calgary.
While previous studies have pointed to a link between depression and diabetes, the new findings, published in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, suggest that when depression combines with metabolic risk factors the risk of developing diabetes rises to a level beyond the sum of its parts.
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