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The syndemics of diabetes and depression in Brazil – An epidemiological analysis

• An epidemiological model of causal pathways in the syndemic of diabetes and depression is presented. • Depression and diabetes are clustering in the adult Brazilian population partly due to shared social and behavioural causes. • There is an interaction between depression and diabetes in their ass...

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Autores principales: Diderichsen, Finn, Andersen, Ingelise
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6293027/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30581954
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2018.11.002
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Sumario:• An epidemiological model of causal pathways in the syndemic of diabetes and depression is presented. • Depression and diabetes are clustering in the adult Brazilian population partly due to shared social and behavioural causes. • There is an interaction between depression and diabetes in their association with disability. • There is a differential susceptibility to the effect of obesity on diabetes across levels of education and depression.