Women who experience diabetes and depression have an elevated risk of dying from heart disease, as well as an increased risk of dying over a six-year period, claim researchers from Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. The research, published in Archives of General Psychiatry, revealed that women with depression experience a 44 percent increased risk of dying over a six-year period as women not diagnosed with depression. Women with diabetes had a 35 percent increased death risk. Women with both depression and diabetes had double the risk, and a threefold increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease. Women with diabetes had a 67 percent increased death risk from cardiovascular disease, and women with depression had a 37 percent increased risk.