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Both depression and diabetes increase the risk for cardiovascular disease (CVD), and depression is more common in patients with diabetes than in the general population. For this report from the longitudinal Nurses' Health Study, investigators used repeated structured questionnaires to examine the impact of diabetes and depression on CVD-related and all-cause mortality during 6 years of follow-up in 78,282 women aged 54 to 79 at baseline.
Depression was defined as having a diagnosis of depression, taking antidepressants, and/or reporting severe depressive symptoms. Type 2 diabetes was identified by reports of typical symptoms plus an elevated blood glucose level, of two or more elevated glucose levels, or of treatment with hypoglycemic agents…