No, really I mean it literally. A
study published In May in the Annals of Family Medicine showed that in people
with diabetes depression increases the risk of serious hypoglycemia by 40%.
Hypoglycemia (dramatic drop in blood sugar) is a serious condition that sends a
lot of people to the ER and can be fatal.
It is also the case that Depression
is often (not always) accompanying diabetes. People with diabetes often take
drugs that at this point work very well, sometimes too well in that they drop
sugar levels too low. This being the case, depression can lower these levels
even more sending the patient into a hypoglycemic episode. The lead researcher
of the study, psychiatrist Wayne Katon, cautions people with diabetes to pay
attention to symptoms of depression and seek treatment for it.
Of course it is my strong opinion that there is
no physical condition that if not caused by depression is not exacerbated by
it. As I said in a previous blog, the
tears the eyes will not shed the body will weep.
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