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LEARN MORE Injuryboard Diabetes Help Center Injuryboard on Merck and ghostwriting studies Injuryboard Depression Help Center JAMA study Cortisol American Diabetes Association on depression IMAGE SOURCE: Wikimedia Commons/ public domain/ depressed man/ author: Hendrike Are depression and diabetes linked? According to a study released Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association , there is interplay between type 2 diabetes and depression. Working on the assumption that depressed people are less physically active and consume more calories, this study looked at the chicken-and-egg theory; does depression cause diabetes, or diabetes cause depression? Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore tracked 5,201 people, ages 45 to 84, for about three years. They did not have type 2 diabetes. After three years, those with symptoms of depression were 42 percent more likely to develop diabetes than those without symptoms of depression. The more serious the depression, the higher the risk of developing diabetes. Even when you factor out other risks such as obesity, the depressed patients still had a 34 percent higher risk of diabetes. Dr. Sherita Hill Golden of Johns Hopkins, told Reuters that depression increases inactivity and a tendency to eat more, "and those are all known risk factors for type 2 diabetes. So it seems that some of the adverse health behaviors associated with depressive symptoms wer ...