Depression doubles the risk of having diabetes

Depression doubles the risk of having diabetes

Zaragoza hosts the largest National and European Congress of Link Psychiatry.

People with depression develop double diabetes.A study carried out on a population sample of Zaragoza, specifically 5,000 people over 65, demonstrates that the incidence of diabetes is double in those elders with depression.This follows from the study carried out within the Psychiatry Service of the Clinical Hospital, from the Sarademp report, initiated in the year 93 to analyze dementia and depression in the elderly population.

15 years have passed since it began and in the comparative study this relationship between depression and diabetes has been demonstrated, although the reasons are not clear at the moment.These results were presented yesterday by Antonio Lobo, the professor and head of psychiatry of the Lozano Blesa University Clinical Hospital of Zaragoza, announcing the celebration in the Aragonese capital of which it will be the largest international congress in Liaison and Psychosomatic Psychiatry.In fact, this scientific meeting, which will take place from Tomorrow Wednesday until Saturday, will gather in the Auditorium of Zaragoza more than 500 authorities in this branch of psychiatry from all over Europe and America.

In addition, it is the most numerous in Europe and one of the most important, because three different entities participate in its organization: the European Psychosomatic Research Conference, the Annual European Congress of the European Association of Link and Psychosomatic Psychiatry and the Psychosomatics and theCongress of the Spanish Society of Psychosomatic Medicine.

"The incidence of depression was greater among those who referred to depression for more than two years, also in those with moderate depression and especially in those who had not received any type of treatment," said Dr. Antonio Campayo, of thePsychiatry service of the Clinical Hospital and that will present in a more detailed way the results of this study in Congress.As for the possible causes, he assured that this aspect is worked on, and they are considered from how depression would cause deterioration in the immune system to an abandonment of an adequate diet by the depressive patient.

Pioneer center This study, however, will be one of the numerous research papers that will be presented these days in Zaragoza, by the most prestigious world authorities in Link and Psychosomatic Psychiatry.Precisely, one of the reasons why Zaragoza has been chosen from this scientific event is undoubtedFound the Spanish Society in Psychosomatic Medicine.

And it is that this approach to psychiatry, which tries to contemplate the patient as an integral whole above medical specialties, mainly seeks to humanize healthcare and in the Clinical Hospital it has been applied for 25 years, Víctor Calleja said with satisfaction yesterday, manager of the health center and remembered Ortega's phrase about me and my circumstances, adding, that the self has a double component, the somatic and psychic.In fact, the Psychosomatic Unit and Liaison Psychiatry of the Clinical Hospital, a pioneer in the development of this specialty, has gone from serving 200 patients a year to more than 1,300, which reflects that it is a booming discipline beforeThe greatest demand of professionals from other specialties.

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