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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
According to a new study published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, effective treatment for depression could go a long way toward improving health status and even preventing death among older adults who also have diabetes.
Researchers assessing depression care management--consisting of trained depression care managers working with physicians and older adults to offer recommendations and ensure follow-through on those suggestions--found that older people with diabetes who received structured depression care management were 53 percent less likely to die over the course of the study when compared with people who received care as usual. The researchers concluded that depression care management also seemed to reduce the risk of death for people with other chronic conditions (except heart disease), but not to the same extent as what they saw with diabetes.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160127121552.htm
No sh*t Sherlock! 🙄
Researchers assessing depression care management--consisting of trained depression care managers working with physicians and older adults to offer recommendations and ensure follow-through on those suggestions--found that older people with diabetes who received structured depression care management were 53 percent less likely to die over the course of the study when compared with people who received care as usual. The researchers concluded that depression care management also seemed to reduce the risk of death for people with other chronic conditions (except heart disease), but not to the same extent as what they saw with diabetes.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/01/160127121552.htm
No sh*t Sherlock! 🙄