These findings on the co-occurrence of depression and diabetes are not unusual. Consumers with many other chronic health conditions also have higher rates of behavioral health disorders. A recent comparative study – Evaluation Of Depression In Adults With And Without Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus – found that depression was nearly twice as common among adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) as among adults without diabetes (61.4% versus 33.3%). Researchers also found that depression was more common among adults with longer-duration diabetes, with those living with diabetes for more than five years having 4.5 times greater odds of clinically significant depressive symptoms than those diagnosed within the previous year.

Similar patterns have been reported across other chronic…