Diabetes News – Weekly Newsletter for January 3-10, 2011

Diabetic women with depression at higher risk of dying from heart disease

WASHINGTON – A new study has suggested that older women who suffer from both diabetes and depression are at a higher risk of dying from all causes, including heart disease, over a six-year period.

In fact, symptoms of depression affect between one-fifth and one-fourth of patients with diabetes, nearly twice as many as individuals without diabetes. …. Source  : Gaea News Network.