‘Many people with diabetes also feel depressed, which is thought to interfere with their ability to regulate their blood sugar levels well. However, improvements in depressive symptoms don’t lead to better control of glucose levels, according to a new report.

“While clinical depression should be treated in all patients, treating depressed mood (non-clinical depression) in patients with type 2 diabetes as a strategy to improve glycemic control is not effective,” Dr. Richard S. Surwit from Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina told Reuters Health.

Surwit and associates investigated whether 16 weeks of cognitive behavior therapy would affect control of blood glucose levels in 28 patients with type 1 diabetes and 62 with type 2 diabetes.’

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