Mumbai, January 28: A new study which followed type 2 diabetes patients over a period of five years has proved that diabetics, who suffer from depression, are at a high risk of developing serious diabetes-related complications such as kidney failure, blindness, heart attack and stroke.
Major depression among diabetics have been associated with a 36 percent higher risk of developing advanced micro-vascular complications, such as end-stage kidney disease or blindness, also a 25 percent higher risk of developing advanced macrovascular complications, such as stroke or
myocardial infarction.
The study appeared in Diabetes Care, a scientific journal of the American Diabetes Association.
Diabetes is a disease of metabolic disorder and is characterized by high sugar levels in the blood. The causes of diabetes are: destruction of the insulin producing cells of the pancreas leading to type1 diabetes, diminished production of insulin by the pancreas or development of resistance to the actions of insulin.
The chronic complications of diabetes are blur vision, blindness, injury to minute blood vessels and nerves carrying senses, impaired kidney function and heart diseases. Injury to minute blood vessels and nerves carrying senses results in slow healing of wounds.
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