Diabetes complications affect mental health and vice-versa, study finds
NEW DELHI, Aug 23 (PTI): A study has found a two-way relationship between complications due to diabetes, such as heart attack and stroke, and mental health conditions, like anxiety and depression – having any of the problems from the former group increased the risk of one from the latter , and the other way round.
Researchers said that the two-way link could also be “less direct” as both — diabetes complications and mental health conditions — shared multiple risk factors, including obesity and problems in controlling blood sugar levels, which increase the chances of developing both sets of disorders.
“Most likely, a combination of direct and indirect effects and shared risk factors drive the association we are seeing,” Maya Watanabe, a biostatistician at the Harvard University’s School of Public Health, US, and first author of the study published in the journal Diabetes Care, said.
