Journal of Global Health (Dec 2015)

Association between depression and diabetes amongst adults in Bangladesh: a hospital based case–control study

  • Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam,
  • Uta Ferrari,
  • Jochen Seissler,
  • Louis Niessen,
  • Andreas Lechner

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7189/jogh.05.020406
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 2

Abstract

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A matched case–control study was conducted among 591 consecutive patients with diabetes attending a tertiary hospital in Dhaka and 591 controls matched for age, sex and area of residence without diabetes not related with the index–case. Depression was measured using the Patient Health Questionnaire–9. Multivariate logistic regression was performed to examine the association between depression and diabetes

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