Mental Health Treatment Extends Lives Of Older Patients With Diabetes And Depression

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine report that older adults with diabetes and depression are half as likely to die over a 5-year period when they receive depression care management than depressed patients with diabetes who do not receive depression care management. The first known study to examine the relationship between diabetes and mortality in a depression intervention trial appears in the December issue of Diabetes Care. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Depression on December 6th, 2007