Study Reveals Higher Mental Health Risk for Women with Type 2 Diabetes
A new study conducted by researchers at Queen Mary University, London, indicates that women diagnosed with type 2 diabetes face a higher risk of developing mental health conditions compared to men. The study, published in the journal PLOS Medicine, tracked nearly 29,000 individuals newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes between 2010 and 2020. It found that approximately 8 percent of women in the study developed a mental health condition, such as depression or anxiety, after their diagnosis, in contrast to 5 percent of men. Fabiola Eto, the study lead, noted that for women, particularly younger women aged 16 to 39, a mental health condition often emerges as one of the earliest complications following a type 2 diabetes diagnosis, sometimes even before physical complications appear. Conversely, men were more frequently diagnosed with cardiovascular and kidney diseases. While the study highlights a strong association, it did not directly assess whether type 2 diabetes causes mental health problems, according to ...
