Most people who suffer from diabetes or depression are considered quite sick. The first one is unlikely to be reversed and the second one is hard to shake off even with professional help. But what happens when people suffer from both of them? Well, the news is not very good. A recent study made by a team in Boston showed that these two combined, especially in women, can represent a higher death risk for people. The study referred to middle-age to elderly women suffering from both diseases.

The power of the mind has helped people in more cases than we can name. It is not to be under estimated. It is the same with depression. Combined with another type of disease, one that destroys our body, it can speed up the end of a person’s life. But why does this study talk about women? It seems that women are more prone to depression than men. The study made in Boston revealed that after a period of six years of co-existing, the two diseases can cause the woman in question heart diseases, endangering her life. Authors of the study speculates that the loss of positive thinking that results from depression can lead to a bad glycemic control which will cause diabetes to worsen and maybe even develop some other complications in the human body.

The numbers in the study were quite scary for the two diseases taken apart from each other. But the lethal combination was when both were encountered in the same person. Women suffering from diabetes presented a 67 percent increased death risk from cardiovascular complications while those suffering from depression had a 37 percent risk. In those women who presented both diseases, the risk increased with a 2.7-fold.